Quick Cut: S2E273 Beating Procrastination
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
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In today’s busy world, procrastination is the mortal enemy of potential and true achievement. In this episode, Brian explains how you can stop making excuses, conquer procrastination and get on the road to incredible success.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· The psychology of procrastination.
· The impacts of procrastination.
· Tips to beat procrastination.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
S2E166 The Power of Perseverance
S2E170 The Slow Burn of Success: Cultivating Patience
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“When we get people to beat procrastination, we can get people to beat their goals.” – Brian Buffini
“Procrastination is not waiting and it is more than delaying. It is a decision not to act.” – Dr. Joseph Ferrari
“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.” – Erica Jong
“When you're doing the good stuff on autopilot, you're winning.” – Brian Buffini
“Habits and routines are the secret elixir of the most successful people in the world.” – Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company. |
| 0:10.4 | Here's a short, classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
| 0:17.1 | Top of the morning, T and welcome. |
| 0:19.4 | Excited to bring a presentation to you today on how to beat procrastination. Now, I was ahead of the morning, T.N. Welcome. Excited to bring a presentation to you today on how to beat |
| 0:22.6 | procrastination. Now, as I had the largest business coaching company in North America, I can tell |
| 0:27.8 | you this, that when we get people to beat procrastination, we get people to beat their goals. |
| 0:32.9 | When we help people beat procrastination and get past it, ultimately, it's where they enter into this |
| 0:40.1 | next level of success for themselves. More than 30% of adults consider themselves to be chronic |
| 0:45.9 | procrastinators. It's a behavior that's actually twice as prevalent amongst self-employed people. |
| 0:52.8 | One of the reasons for it is we're our own |
| 0:55.1 | accountability oftentimes. That's why I love coaching. It takes the self-out-of-self-help or |
| 1:00.8 | self-employed. So as small business owners, we're especially susceptible to procrastination. |
| 1:09.4 | Now, the basic definition of procrastination is to be slow or late about doing |
| 1:15.0 | something that should be done. We tend to put off the things that are the most important for our health, |
| 1:21.4 | the most important for our finances, the most important for our business. And there's reasons why |
| 1:26.0 | we put it off. And we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:28.8 | Procrastination expert, Dr. Joseph Ferrari, says procrastination is not waiting. |
| 1:34.3 | It is more than delaying. |
| 1:36.0 | It is a decision not to act. |
| 1:39.2 | That's what procrastination is. |
| 1:40.8 | There are many psychological and emotional factors behind us, and we're going to delve in today. |
| 1:45.9 | It's ultimately a very serious self-defeating pattern. Today I'm going to break down the different |
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