Hey, it's your friend Mel Robbins, guest hosting for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and Happy Thursday.

We're focusing this week on motivation, and that means we got to talk about procrastination,

because procrastination is killing your dreams, your progress, it's killing your confidence.

And so first, I want to tell you the surprising reason why you procrastinate based on the

research.

Second, you and I are going to talk about mistakes that we're making related to procrastination.

And finally, things you need to do to stop procrastinating.

The reason why you procrastinate is going to blow your mind.

Apparently there is this researcher up in Canada who has been researching procrastination

for more than two decades.

Talk about a snooze fest.

But thank God this researcher did.

You want to know why?

He figured out the reason why we procrastinate.

And it's not what you think.

It's not because you're lazy.

It's not because you lack willpower.

It's not because you don't deserve the things that you want.

And honestly, it's not even because you're scared.

The reason why we procrastinate is because we are either stressed out or overwhelmed.

And that means that your brain doesn't want to have to exert any energy at all.

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