Stop Procrastinating Now

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, we emphasize that procrastination is a common experience and should not be a source of guilt or self-judgment. Procrastination can cause anxiety, limit opportunities, and negatively affect relationships. To combat procrastination, I suggest doing the hard thing first, rewarding oneself for progress, holding oneself accountable, taking breaks, removing distractions, and taking action. I also address a listener's question about feeling overwhelmed by household chores and offer advice on establishing routines and involving children in chores.

Takeaways

* Procrastination is a common experience and should not be a source of guilt or self-judgment.

* Procrastination can cause anxiety, limit opportunities, and negatively affect relationships.

* To combat procrastination, do the hard thing first, reward yourself for progress, hold yourself accountable, take breaks, remove distractions, and take action.

* Establishing routines and involving children in household chores can help alleviate feelings of overwhelm.

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 427. Stop procrastinating now. Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle
0:07.2	Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you. Know your worth is a woman so you can find peace,
0:13.1	balance, and joy and family living. This week we're talking about procrastination. Do you do this?
0:18.2	Everybody does it, but we're going to talk about some ways that you can combat it
0:21.3	in the negative influence it has in your life. I can't wait to get started. Let's go.
0:31.9	Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thank you so much for joining me here this week. I love connecting
0:36.6	on the podcast. I love connecting on the podcast. I love
0:37.8	connecting about the important things about our faith and family lives. And this week, we are
0:42.7	focused on a sort of negative thing, but we're going to be focused on it in a positive way,
0:47.2	because this is something we can change in our lives. We're going to talk about procrastination.
0:52.9	And this is something everybody deals with.
0:56.1	If you are walking around, putting off things, dreading things, just waiting until the last
1:01.9	minute to do things, especially those things that you don't particularly enjoy, welcome to
1:06.6	humanity. This is part of the experience of a human being. So don't burden yourself with guilt or think
1:13.2	it's this major character flaw and beat yourself up over it. I think it's actually the first thing.
1:19.1	It's not one of my points that I'm going to make here today, but it's really important to just
1:22.3	accept it and not feel like there's some moral judgment of yourself, the fact that you're putting off
1:29.4	things that you want to get done, that you're not able to reach your goal. This is part of the
1:33.4	human experience, and we can talk frankly here about the fact that everybody does this,
1:38.7	everybody experiences this, and if you don't want it to be a negative influence in your life,
1:42.8	there are things that you can do to combat it, to take charge of your life. First of all, like, why would we want to do this?
1:48.9	Procrastination, as much as it might feel good in the moment to say, oh, I'll do that tomorrow,
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