Welcome to It's a Good Life, the Podcast for Entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing

yourself and your business.

Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney.

Top of the morning tea and welcome, aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii.

Excited to bring a presentation to you today on how to beat

procrastination. Now as the head of the largest business coaching company in North

America I can tell you this that when we get people to beat procrastination, we get people to beat their goals.

When we help people beat procrastination and get past it, ultimately it's where they enter

into this next level of success for themselves.

And procrastination is more than just putting stuff off.

We're going to talk about that today.

More than 30% of adults consider themselves to be chronic procrastinators.

It's a behavior that's actually twice as prevalent among self-employed people.

One of the reasons for it is we're our own accountability oftentimes.

That's why I love coaching it takes the self out of self-help or self-employed.

So as small business owners we're especially susceptible to procrastination.

Now the basic definition of procrastination is to be slow or late about doing something that should be done. To be slow or late about doing

something that should be done. Now I don't like the word should too much, but I think ultimately

that definition is about something that's a high priority.

We tend to put off the things that are the most important for our health, the most important

for our finances, the most important for our business. When I talk about people having their affairs in order, people know, I should have insurance and a will or a trust, I should have things set up and I should have my documentation in order I should have my medical stuff

all outlined for my family but we put it off and there's reasons why we put it off

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