Overcoming Procrastination: Unleashing Motivation and Creating a Pursuit Mindset

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.7K 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. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:05: Intrinsic vs. external motivation 10:00: Identifying your intrinsic or “noncontingent” motivations 15:00: Self-determination theory (SDT) 19:35: Pursuit and prey orientation 28:25: The psychological function of procrastination 35:35: Learning what you like, and focusing on it 42:25: Meaning, purpose, pleasure, and satisfaction 46:20: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: Go to BrioAirPurifier.com and use code BEINGWELL to save $100 on a Brio Air Purifier. Finally get that project off the ground with Squarespace! Head to squarespace.com/beingwell for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch use coupon code BEINGWELL to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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