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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In this episode, we dive into a topic that affects us all: procrastination. Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank screen, with a deadline looming? Suddenly, the urge to scroll through social media becomes irresistible and you end up pulling an all-nighter fueled by caffeine and sheer determination. But why do we put ourselves through this last-minute panic? Why do we allow procrastination to get the best of us?
We'll explore the Procrastination Cycle and how it keeps us trapped in its grasp. We'll also discuss the Present and Future Self, and how these concepts affect our motivation to complete tasks. But don't worry, I won't leave you hanging. We'll cover a few techniques to help build effective habits for beating procrastination.
Enjoy!
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0:00.0 | Hey, have you ever found yourself, like, staring at a blank screen with some big deadline looming? |
0:12.2 | And it's remarkable to me that in that moment, suddenly the urge to scroll through social media |
0:18.2 | becomes irresistible and you end up, you know, having to pull some all-nighter |
0:22.6 | fueled by caffeine and determination because you dilly dallyed or you goofed off. Now, you might |
0:30.7 | have met the deadline, but the quality of the work at that point, I'm guessing, you know, even |
0:37.2 | if you said, oh, deadlines really |
0:38.9 | forced me to do my best work, just be careful because I believe that is a recipe for your work |
0:47.8 | to suffer, not to mention your sleep, right? Your sleep definitely suffered. The toll on your mental |
0:53.3 | health on the kind of both of those, putting out less good work and not getting much of sleep, right? Your sleep definitely suffered. The toll on your mental health on the kind of both of those, |
0:54.8 | putting out less good work and not getting much of sleep, is probably going to be a lot bigger |
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