Overcoming Procrastination: Unleashing Motivation and Creating a Pursuit Mindset

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We've all experienced that frustrating feeling of knowing that we should be doing something, and yet struggling to take action. Join Forrest and Dr. Rick as they explore how we can overcome avoidance and procrastination, unlock our motivation, and cultivate a "pursuit mindset." They discuss intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, why extrinsic motivations aren’t such a bad thing, and how we can use our important values to set better goals and shape our behavior. You’ll learn why procrastination is based on fear, how to orient toward pursuit and see yourself as an agent of change, and the key role “getting good at liking” plays in this process.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well.
0:09.4	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,
0:13.1	welcome back.
0:14.7	One of the most difficult experiences that we have just as humans, and I've experienced
0:19.9	this one many times, is when we know we should do something, and we just don't do it.
0:26.1	Or maybe in some ways, even worse, when we're pursuing a goal that feels like it should
0:31.4	be meaningful to us, but it just doesn't feel meaningful inside of us.
0:36.9	Or maybe there's some destination out there that we really want to get to, but right now
0:40.9	the journey is just not cutting it.
0:43.8	And these are very normal challenges that we have having to do with motivation and procrastination,
0:49.7	setting good goals, and maybe even more than that, finding meaning and fulfillment in the
0:54.5	course of our lives.
0:56.4	Almost everybody has struggled with these problems, and thankfully, because of that, there
1:01.1	are a lot of good solutions to them that we've developed over time.
1:05.5	And so to help me explore some of those solutions, get a bit better at avoiding procrastination,
1:11.4	and to hopefully find more motivation and meaning and fulfillment altogether in our lives,
1:16.2	I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson.
1:18.9	Rick is a clinical psychologist, he is an author, and he's also my dad, and he's here
1:23.3	with me live, and in person, so dad, how are you doing?
1:26.1	I'm really happy here, and so glad we stopped putting this off.
1:30.3	It's true.
1:33.3	We were going to do this in person for like several months at some point, and we just kept
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