How to Trick You Brain to Stop Procrastinating | Ep 110

Build with Leila Hormozi

Leila Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Management, How To, Business

5 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

“You cannot control every feeling that gets provoked, but you can control how you behave.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) shares valuable insights on overcoming procrastination by addressing the three major reasons behind it: anxiety, rebelliousness, and boredom. Through personal anecdotes and practical solutions, she emphasizes the importance of taking action and making decisions for business growth.

Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, gaining millions in sales, and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up, because we’re creating an unshakeable business.

Timestamps:

(1:26) - Monster of procrastination #1: Anxiety

(4:57) - Monster of procrastination #2: Rebelliousness

(6:41) - Monster of procrastination #2: Boredom

(9:21) - Tackling boredom and procrastination

(11:39) - Live audience Q&A: Overcoming procrastination

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Transcript

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0:00.0	oftentimes when we're working on something exciting, it's good for us in the short term,
0:03.9	but not leading to our long-term goal. And oftentimes when we're dealing with boredom,
0:07.1	it's good for us in the long term, but in the short term, it's not very incentivizing.
0:16.1	How do you create an unshakable business? I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28.
0:21.7	Now I'm growing Acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. In this podcast, I share the lessons
0:26.3	I've learned in scaling big businesses and helping our portfolio companies do the same.
0:30.6	Buckle up and let's build.
0:37.0	Today, I'm going to help you understand the three main reasons why you procrastinate and what you can do about it.
0:42.0	At the end, I'm actually going to jump into real conversations with people from my audience live to talk about how to stop procrastin.
0:49.2	Getting yourself to do something when you don't want to do it is a skill in itself.
0:54.1	The reason that you procrastinate
0:55.9	is because you lack skill. Not because there's something wrong with you, not because there's something
0:59.9	wrong with the thing you need to do at hand, but because you're lacking fundamental skills of managing
1:04.0	yourself. Because let's be honest, you've probably put it in your calendar, you probably put it on your
1:08.4	to-do list, probably avoided it, didn't do it,
1:11.1	thought about how much you didn't want to do it, thought about you could do something else instead,
1:14.2	thought about how you should do something else instead, and then done something else instead.
1:17.7	Procrastination isn't any practical problem. It's just an emotional problem. My friend Dr.
1:21.6	Cassie introduced me to this and he calls it the three-headed monster of procrastination. So let's dive into them. So the first of the three-headed
1:28.1	monster is anxiety. So for me, I don't know about you, but anxiety is almost 200% of the reason I don't
1:33.9	do things. And I can tell you personally, this is one I have probably dealt with the most. And so what
1:38.2	it means is that the thought of doing something or the action of starting to do the thing
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