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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Pre-UFYB 1: One and Done: How to Stop Procrastinating

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we’re diving into a subject familiar to many lawyers: Procrastination!

Join me for this episode as I explain how procrastination works, why we procrastinate (it’s not why you think), and how we can rid ourselves of this stressful habit and become better and happier lawyers in the process!

Get full show notes and more information here: http://bit.ly/2pCJElC

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you like what you hear on this episode, you're going to want to come check out my new podcast

0:04.4

called The Unfuck Your Brain Podcast. What you're listening to right now, the lawyer's stress

0:09.7

solution, has ceased production of new episodes. But unfuck your brain is rockin' and rollin'.

0:15.6

Every week, I release a new episode of The Unfuck Your Brain Podcast, teaching you the same

0:20.8

great tools for taming your brain. But with even more applications to other areas of your life.

0:26.5

You can search for it by name. Remember, there's an asterisk instead of the you in unfuck because

0:32.3

we like to be polite. Or just click the link to it in the podcast description for this show. I'll see you

0:38.2

over there.

0:47.8

You're listening to The Lawyer's Stress Solution. The only podcast that teaches you cognitive

0:52.9

science-based techniques specifically created for lawyers. Learn how to manage your lawyer brain

0:58.6

and conquer the stress, anxiety, and overwhelm of lawyer life. Here's your host,

1:04.2

former lawyer and certified master coach, Kara Loan-Thyles.

1:11.4

Hello my lawyer friends. Happy Sunday. It's a Sunday when I'm recording this. And when I was a

1:18.8

lawyer practicing full-time, and really before that even in law school and in college and high school,

1:25.6

Sundays were always kind of the worst. Right? I would wake up on Sunday morning, and that part

1:31.2

was nice. It was still the weekend. I had the whole day ahead of me. But usually what happened is

1:36.2

that all the work I had procrastinated on the whole week before I would have put on my to-do list

1:42.2

for Sunday. So the minute I woke up Sunday, it was like now it was the deadline and I had to do

1:48.3

all of this work. And I would put it off all day, but then I wouldn't really enjoy the day because

1:53.1

I was kind of constantly looking ahead to how I should be doing the work. And the anxiety and the

1:58.5

guilt would start to build until eventually Sunday night, I would get all the work done super stressed

2:03.7

out. And I would start the week on Monday feeling really depleted from the day before. And like the

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