It is in the getting on with life that makes our lives and that procrastination in a very real sense is an existential issue of not getting on with life itself.

Welcome to the one you feed.

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend to add negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.

We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction. How they feed their good wolf.

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Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Tim Sitchel.

Tim is an associate professor of psychology at Carlton University in Ottawa and has garnered an international reputation for his scholarship and a global audience for his iPrecrastine podcast.

He also writes a popular Don't Delay blog with psychology today. His new book is Solving the Recrastination Puzzle, a concise guide to strategies for change.

Hi Tim, welcome to the show. Hi Eric, thanks for having me.

I am really excited to have you on. Your book is called Solving the Recrastination Puzzle, a concise guide to strategies for change.

You actually have a couple books, but this is the one that I read to focus on for the interview.

And I know Recrastination runs rampant everywhere, and I know our listeners, it's something they also are interested in.

So I'm really looking forward to getting into that. But let's start like we normally do with the parable.

There is a grandfather who's talking with his granddaughter and he says in life, there are two wolves inside of us that are always at battle.

What is a good wolf, which represents things like kindness and bravery and love, and the other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed and hatred and fear.

And the granddaughter stops and she thinks about it for a second and looks up at her grandfather and she says, well, grandfather, which one wins?

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