Welcome to Season 4 episode 13 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.

Today I'm going to share some thoughts on how to stop procrastinating and get things done.

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resources, and to share your thoughts on the show. This week we're tackling

one of the most vicious struggles for many of us, and that is procrastination.

I've spent a lot of time observing what causes procrastination and what prevents it

because this is such a deep and pervasive problem for me personally.

It's something that I have always struggled with and will probably always struggle with.

I haven't found that procrastination is something that you can conquer once and for all.

Like just about all decisions that involve staying healthy and being productive,

your day-by-day choices matter a lot.

For most people, there will never be a day when you wait. By day

when you wake up and you don't feel pulled to be lazy or eat junk food or skip the workout

or leave the house a mess.

These kinds of temptations are things that will just be

faced with daily. So here are four things that you can do to make it easier to

overcome those feelings of procrastination when they strike.

These are the techniques that I use and that have helped me a lot on a day-by-day basis.

First off, get clear on your vision and outcome. The first step in overcoming procrastination is to identify a goal

or an outcome for your work that you care deeply about. Truly productive people tend to set long-term goals for themselves.

For example, they know they want to have a certain task move completely off their plate in one month's time

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