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Hi, I'm Anne Strange Champs. It's the season for New Year's resolutions, and I have a confession. I don't actually

make New Year's resolutions because I can't keep them. No matter what goal I set, doesn't matter.

Exercise more, drink less, clean out the basement. I always mean to do it just tomorrow or the next day.

And you know what this is like, right? You probably put things off once in a while yourself. Maybe you're even supposed to be doing something else right

now instead of listening to this. So today, on to the best of our knowledge from BRI, our subject

is procrastination. Why do we put things off? Even things we mean to do, even things we

want to do. And how can we stop? Here's Pierce Steele, author of the procrastination equation.

People fiercely defend their procrastination. They argue vehemently that I'm a procrastination that works for me.

But strict definition, you're putting off, you have to expect to be worse off. You're putting off despite

thinking that you should have started earlier by your own standards.

Don't put off till tomorrow. What you can do today.

Don't leave things half finished.

That's all we've done on that.

It's a huge problem.

For example, colorectal cancer is probably one of the biggest killers.

And the reason why isn't because it's not treatable if caught early.

It's just to diagnose it, you need a colonoscopy, and it's kind of humiliating, and it's kind of embarrassing.

So people would rather put off dying of embarrassment now and risk dying of colorectal cancer later.

So that's the other end. And actually in the book, that's actually exactly what happened to my stepmother.

She put it off and by the time they diagnosed it, it was too late.

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