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you're not a procrastinator you have a
habit of procrastinating big difference
because if it's a habit I can teach you
to use science to break it so let's talk
a little bit about procrastination who
in here struggles with procrastination
yeah and the rest of you that are
trading your hand or just
procrastinating on doing it aren't you I
know you see I always thought
procrastination had to do with the thing
I was procrastinating around right like
that procrastination has something to do
with work believe it or not
procrastination has nothing to do with
your work procrastination is a form of
stress relief let me explain this so
let's say that you've got some stuff
going on in your life and heck who
doesn't have stuff going on in your life
maybe you're fighting with your
significant other maybe moms or dads
health is failing and it's really really
upsetting you maybe you've got some
financial stuff you put too much of your
savings into Bitcoin and now that that's
crashed you're stressed out about it
right and so you go into work and when
you get into work you got stuff to do
you kind of walk in and you got this big
stress ball that subconsciously is
hanging over your head and so you walk
in and you sit down and you know you've
got 13 phone calls you need to make and
you also know that you've been
chickening out you've been making easy
calls and there's a bunch of CIOs or
other people that are higher level that
you haven't been calling and so as you
sit down to do it you've got the stress
on your shoulders your brain that it
starts to go wait a minute what you want
me to make a call to somebody that I'm
scared to make absolutely not I'm so
stressed out about can we just watch
some cat videos for a minute and next
thing you know an hours gone by and then
of course what do you do you beat
yourself up so the only way that you can
break this habit and that's an important
word for you to hear you're not a
procrastinator you have a habit of
procrastinating big difference because
if it's a habit I can teach you to use
science to break it you see all habits
have three parts there's a trigger and
in the case of procrastination the
triggers always stress then there's a
pattern you repeat and in the case of
procrastination it is to avoid doing
something and then there's a reward you
get a little stress relief the only way
to break a habit you guys is not to deal
with the triggers you're never gonna get
rid of the stress in your life but you
can 100% change your pattern of avoiding
work so next time that you're in a
situation where you feel yourself
hesitate you spent way too much time
checking out the highlights from last
night's scores what you're gonna do is
you're gonna go up I must be stressed
out about something acknowledge the
stress then go 5 4 3 2 1
I want you to count to yourself because
I want you to interrupt the habit that's
stored here and I want you to awaken
your prefrontal cortex then I want you
to just work just for five minutes the
reason why I want you to only work for
five minutes is because your problem
isn't working it's the habit of avoiding
I just need you to start and here's the
other cool thing we know based on
research that if we can get you to start
80% of you are going to keep going [Music]
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