The ONLY Way To Stop Procrastinating

The Mindset Mentor

Rob Dial

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Mindset

4.8 • 13.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Why do we procrastinate—even when we know what we want? In this episode, I’ll show you that procrastination isn’t a character flaw. I’ll break down how fear, safety, and your ancient brain are holding you back from action. Are you ready to stop procrastinating and break your bad habits? If so, I just opened the doors to Mindset 2.0—my full system to help you break through fear, rewire your identity, and follow through like never before. Discount disappears July 24th. Click here 👉 https://www.coachwithrob.com/enroll-aThe Mindset Mentor™ podcast is designed for anyone desiring motivation, direction, and focus in life. Past guests of The Mindset Mentor include Tony Robbins, Matthew McConaughey, Jay Shetty, Andrew Huberman, Lewis Howes, Gregg Braden, Rich Roll and Dr Steven Gundry. Here are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here: Instagram TikTok Facebook Youtube

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so,
0:13.3	hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. And if you love this podcast,
0:18.0	do me a favor. Share it with somebody. Reason why is because we grow every single time that you guys share it. And all we really want to do is impact more life. So if you would share it, I would greatly appreciate it. Today, I'm going to talk to you about the only real way to stop procrastinating. I'm going to say this first before we start, because you need to know, you're not procrastinating because you're lazy. You're not procrastinating because you're broken.
0:39.7	You're not procrastinating and you're not doomed to be one of, quote unquote, those people that
0:44.4	never follows through.
0:46.3	Whatever you're dealing with, with your procrastination, I promise you, I have heard it many
0:52.9	times over the last two decades of coaching people, of working with people. And I promise you, I have heard it many times over the last two decades of coaching people,
0:56.0	of working with people. And I promise you this, you're normal. You're out there and you're going,
1:01.8	there's something wrong with me. You know, I'm one of those people who doesn't procrastinate.
1:04.7	I don't know how to get past it. No, you've been beating yourself up over procrastinating,
1:09.4	thinking that it might be just who you are
1:11.5	and that there's no solution to this thing.
1:14.9	But it's not true.
1:16.2	There's definitely a solution.
1:17.5	And I'm going to teach you today the biggest part of the solution, the main reason why you procrastinate.
1:22.7	And it's not your willpower.
1:25.4	It's not your schedule.
1:27.1	You don't need some new productivity app or new
1:30.7	planner or something like that. Really what it comes down to and what we're going to dive into today
1:35.5	is it is your nervous system and it is your brain working together to stop you. And I'm going to
1:41.1	talk to you about why that is. I'm going to talk to you about how to actually get past that. Because your nervous system and your brain are doing exactly what they're
1:48.3	supposed to do. I want you to know this. Before we go any further, procrastination is just protection.
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