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This week, how to reduce procrastination and why you don’t want to completely remove it.
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Script | 353
Hello, and welcome to episode 353 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.
We recently asked what’s the biggest thing that ruins your productivity on my YouTube community page. 58% of participants said procrastination.
In a way, that doesn’t surprise me. When you see the statistics on how many people spend time planning their days and weeks, I am actually surprised that the number isn’t higher. I’ll explain shortly.
Now, procrastination has been around for a very long time. Leonardo Da Vinci only managed to finish a small number of paintings. Of the twenty paintings attributed to him, around five were finished.
Leonardo was a serial procrastinator. Yet, it was that procrastination that led to many of his inventions. If he had not procrastinated as much as he did, we would have many more of his paintings but very few of his notebooks full of drawings and diagrams.
The good news is, there are a few practices you can do that will reduce procrastination and enable you to be more internal about your days.
To get us started, let me hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week’s question.
This week’s question comes from Carlos. Carlos asks, Hi Carl, what advice do you have for overcoming procrastination?
Hi Carlos, thank you for your question.
As I alluded to, procrastination and daily and weekly planning are linked. When you are clear about what needs to be accomplished you will procrastinate less.
The problem when you have no plan is you waste a lot of time trying to decide what needs to be done. And then, it’s likely you will pick the easiest thing to do in the hope it will get you started.
It’s true, you will get started, but you will be doing low value tasks leaving behind the higher value ones. The ones you don’t know what needs to be done or what the first action is because you don’t have a plan.
And that leaves you at the end of the day looking at a list of important, high value things you didn’t do.
One way to overcome this is to be very clear about what the next action is. In my next YouTube