Transforming Procrastination into Progress: A Practical Approach

This week, rather than discussing how to do more, I thought we'd focus on one of productivity's greatest enemies...procrastination. We've all been there. Some important task looming on our to-do list, staring us down for hours...days...weeks. But somehow we keep finding any excuse to avoid it. Doom scrolling on Pinterest, watching just one more episode (or 12), even things we would never normally want to do, like organizing your sock drawer. Procrastination is the ultimate productivity killer. But why do we continuously do this? We want to get stuff done. We know procrastination will negatively impact that. But we continuously do it. Why? In the next few minutes, we'll dive into the psychology behind procrastination and arm ourselves with practical strategies to overcome it. So, whether you're reading this as a way to avoid your actual work (that would be ironic

Mar 31, 2025 - 13:50
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Transforming Procrastination into Progress: A Practical Approach

This week, rather than discussing how to do more, I thought we'd focus on one of productivity's greatest enemies...procrastination.

We've all been there. Some important task looming on our to-do list, staring us down for hours...days...weeks. But somehow we keep finding any excuse to avoid it. Doom scrolling on Pinterest, watching just one more episode (or 12), even things we would never normally want to do, like organizing your sock drawer. Procrastination is the ultimate productivity killer.

But why do we continuously do this? We want to get stuff done. We know procrastination will negatively impact that. But we continuously do it. Why? In the next few minutes, we'll dive into the psychology behind procrastination and arm ourselves with practical strategies to overcome it.

So, whether you're reading this as a way to avoid your actual work (that would be ironic