There's often a gap between what we're currently doing and what we feel like we should be doing.

So the best way to describe this is imagining you have your present self and you have your future self.

While setting long-term goals is seen as necessary and valuable for our future selves,

it can still feel exceedingly difficult to get our present selves to act.

Your present self often values immediate gratification over the long-term goals.

The enemy of our future selves procrastination.

Whether it's filing our taxes on April 14th or filling up your gas tank on the way to work,

instead of the night before, like you thought you should, we all do it to various extremes and results.

I'm TKDUTES. In this episode of LifeKit, we talk to Anastasia Lockland, a licensed therapist,

and recovering procrastinator.

This episode isn't a substitute for therapy, but we'll cover what procrastination is,

how it's sometimes linked with perfectionism, phomo, fear of missing out y'all,

and we'll give you some strategies to help combat it today.

Like, not waiting today.

Hey there, LifeKit's managing producer Megan Kane here.

Before we jump back into the episode, we want to say welcome to any new LifeKit listeners.

We're really glad you're here. You can expect each episode to have helpful takeaways to get

you started on whatever life project you're looking to tackle. There are episodes on money,

physical and mental health, parenting, and much more. So take a look around. We're sure there's

an episode that answers a question you've been asking yourself. Okay, onto the episode.

Let's just jump into the main thing of it. So how do you define procrastination?

So, procrastination is typically a dysfunctional way of coping with unwanted emotions and feelings

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