Greetings, greetings everyone. Welcome back to this Monday on Radiohead Space. I'm K-Songer,

and I really hope everyone was able to have a fan tabulous weekend. I wanted to talk

a little bit today about an old friend of mine who I lost touch with for quite some time,

but they're trying really hard to start up a relationship again. And I need to be fully

transparent in saying that this friend of mine is not a healthy presence in my life.

When we had a strong relationship going, my responsibilities seemed to just fall by the wayside.

Things just weren't getting done efficiently, and it was usually due to me listening and following

my friend. And the thing that's wild about this friend of mine is that I would bet that everyone

in this world has befriended them at one or more times in their lives. This friend I'm speaking of

is the ever-popular Procrastination. I think ever since high school when I gained a bit of

independence, I always had an issue with procrastination. I would just always wait until the very last

minute to complete assignments. I convinced myself that I worked best on the pressure,

and I was thoroughly fascinated by my peers who would get their work done immediately the day of

receiving the assignment. I think deep down I really wanted to be that person too, but it just

wasn't in my nature at the time. And this behavior carried over into college, just waiting until the

very last minute. Oddly enough, I did really well in school, so it didn't really affect me academically,

but I did notice how it made me more stressed and I wanted to be, and I was always frantically

rushing to places and often late to appointments. I eventually got sick of it and arrived at a point

where I knew I needed to make a change. Not only did I know, but I was also ready. I just wasn't sure how.

And so I tried and tried, and I actually did have some good stretches of letting procrastination go,

but it was kind of a roller coaster ride. I would keep going back and forth. It wasn't really

until I discovered mindfulness that I was able to make a fairly consistent change.

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