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¿De verdad necesitas más fuerza de voluntad? ¿O simplemente estás confiando en un mito que te sabotea cada día? En este episodio, desentrañamos uno de los errores más comunes en el desarrollo personal: creer que todo depende de nuestra fuerza de voluntad. A través de las ideas de Piers Steel, autor de La ecuación de la procrastinación, y James Clear, creador del best-seller Hábitos Atómicos, exploramos por qué los hábitos tienen más poder que la fuerza de voluntad cuando se trata de transformar tu vida. Analizaremos: Qué nos dice la ciencia sobre la fuerza de voluntad y su duración Cómo los hábitos pueden reemplazar decisiones difíciles repetitivas Por qué seguir confiando en tu autocontrol puede estar saboteando tus objetivos Cómo crear un sistema efectivo de hábitos duraderos sin depender de la motivación diaria “No te elevas al nivel de tus metas, caes al nivel de tus sistemas” - James Clear Además, entenderás por qué seguir procrastinando no es solo falta de voluntad, sino una consecuencia de tu entorno, tus emociones y tus rutinas mal diseñadas. Acompáñanos en este episodio y rompe con el mito de la fuerza de voluntad de una vez por todas. Palabras clave (SEO) fuerza de voluntad,mito de la fuerza de voluntad,piers steel,habitos atomicos,james clear,procrastinación,formar hábitos,sistemas de hábitos,autocontrol,motivación,desarrollo personal,psicología de hábitos,teoría de la mente,autoayuda,cambio de hábitos,crear rutinas,salud mental,psicología práctica,productividad,gestión del tiempo,conducta humana,decisiones automáticas,hábitos saludables,transformación personal,mente y conducta Hashtags #hábitos #fuerzadevoluntad #psicología #procrastinación #desarrollopersonal #teoríadelamente Títulos atractivos (clickbait útiles): 4 hábitos que te salvarán cuando la fuerza de voluntad ya no funcione Deja de confiar en tu fuerza de voluntad (no es lo que crees) Esta forma de crear hábitos cambiará tu vida para siempre 5 errores que estás cometiendo al intentar cambiar con fuerza de voluntad Por qué dejar de usar fuerza de voluntad fue lo mejor que hice Enlaces formateados con emojis Nuestra escuela de ansiedad: www.escuelaansiedad.com Nuestro nuevo libro: www.elmapadelaansiedad.com Visita nuestra página web: www.amadag.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Asociacion.Agorafobia/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amadag.psico/ Youtube Amadag TV: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC22fPGPhEhgiXCM7PGl68rw

Today's wisdom comes from The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel. If you're loving Heroic Wisdom Daily, be sure to subscribe to the emails at heroic.us/wisdom-daily.   And… Imagine unlocking access to the distilled wisdom form 700+ of the greatest books ever written.   That's what Heroic Premium offers: Unlimited access to every Philosopher's Note. Daily inspiration and actionable tools to optimize your energy, work, and love. Personalized coaching features to help you stay consistent and focused   Upgrade to Heroic Premium →   Or, ready to go next level?   Join Heroic Elite, a 101-day training program designed to help you unlock your potential and achieve real, measurable results. Optimize your energy, work, and love with a proven system for transformation. Become the best, most Heroic version of yourself.   Join Heroic Elite →   And finally: Know someone who'd love this? Share Heroic Wisdom Daily with them, and let's grow together in 2025!   Share Heroic Wisdom Daily →

Hey! This video is all about... VIDEO TIMELINE ⇢ 0:28 Two common things you'll see in people who struggle with procrastination 1:04 Impulsivity and procrastination 1:33 How to tell if you struggle with all-or-nothing thinking 4:11 What to do about it all 5:56 The Stop Technique 7:40 Reccs of the week 8:46 Outro LINKS ⇢

Earth shattering news fam: the Perfect Moment IS A REAL THING. It's really about the present becuase other than that, you're waste time "training to train," or preparing to start. Just Start. Figure life out as it was intended - as it unfolds before you in the time gap called RIGHT NOW. Let's breakdown these 8 concepts that prevent you from moving on your now goals.   The "Perfect" Moment Concept Procrastination and Its Consequences: Evidence: Psychological studies, including research by Piers Steel, highlight the negative impact of procrastination on goal achievement. Waiting for the 'perfect' moment often leads to unnecessary delays and missed opportunities, hindering overall success. The Zeigarnik Effect: Evidence: The Zeigarnik Effect, studied by psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik, suggests that incomplete tasks tend to occupy more mental space than completed ones. Waiting for the 'perfect' moment creates an ongoing mental load, contributing to stress and anxiety. Action Bias and Decision-Making: Evidence: Behavioral economics research, such as the work of Amos Tversky and Eldar Shafir, indicates that individuals often prefer taking action over inaction. Waiting for the 'perfect' moment can lead to decision paralysis, hindering the benefits associated with proactive behavior. The Progress Principle: Evidence: Teresa Amabile's Progress Principle suggests that small wins and daily progress contribute significantly to motivation and well-being. Waiting for perfection overlooks the value of continuous progress, impacting overall satisfaction and goal attainment. Neuroscience of Procrastination: Evidence: Neuroscientific studies, like those by Timothy Pychyl, reveal that procrastination involves a struggle between the brain's limbic system (associated with emotions) and the prefrontal cortex (responsible for decision-making). Waiting for the 'perfect' moment engages this internal conflict, leading to delays. Learning Through Imperfection: Evidence: Carol Dweck's research on fixed and growth mindsets emphasizes the importance of viewing challenges as opportunities for growth. Waiting for perfection reflects a fixed mindset, while embracing imperfection aligns with a growth mindset, fostering resilience and adaptability. Decision Regret and Perfection: Evidence: Studies on decision regret, such as those by Daniel Kahneman, highlight that individuals often regret inaction more than imperfect actions. Waiting for perfection can lead to prolonged inaction, resulting in greater potential for regret. Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: Evidence: Research on implementation intentions by Peter Gollwitzer suggests that specifying when and where a behavior will occur increases the likelihood of goal attainment. Waiting for the 'perfect' moment neglects the power of intentional planning and execution.   Procrastination Impact: Research by psychologist Piers Steel suggests that procrastination affects approximately 20% of the population chronically and up to 70-95% at some point in their lives. Waiting for the 'perfect' moment contributes to procrastination, impacting a significant portion of individuals. Decision Regret: Studies on decision regret, as conducted by psychologists like Daniel Kahneman, indicate that people tend to regret inaction more than action. Waiting for the 'perfect' moment may lead to greater decision regret, emphasizing the importance of taking action even if it's imperfect. Implementation Intentions: Research by Peter Gollwitzer on implementation intentions shows that setting specific plans for goal implementation increases the likelihood of goal attainment by about 50%. Waiting for the 'perfect' moment may decrease the effectiveness of implementation intentions, potentially hindering goal achievement.

Q u o t e s: Have you told yourself how Wonderful you are today? 2nd: Humans are a work in progress for their entire lives. Take pride in every little step you're taking that moves you forward. S e g m e n t s: Let's start with the "Dos" - the Actions & Strategies that can truly propel your Personal Development journey. 1. **Set Clear Goals**    - Statistic: According to a study by Dominican University, people who write down their goals are 42% more likely to achieve them.    - Value: Setting clear, specific goals provides a roadmap for personal growth. 2. **Continuous Learning**    - Statistic: The World Economic Forum predicts that by 2025, over 50% of all employees will require significant reskilling & upskilling.    - Value: Lifelong learning ensures you stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. 3. **Embrace Failure**    - Statistic: Thomas Edison famously failed 1,000 times before inventing the light bulb.     - Value: Failure is a stepping stone to success, teaching resilience & innovation. 4. Cultivate Self-Discipline - Statistic: Research shows that Self-Discipline is a key predicator of Personal Success. - Value: Discipline helps you stick to your Goals & Maintain Consistency. 5. Networking & Mentorship - Statistic: According to a survey by Linkedin, 85% of jobs are filled through networking. - Value: Building a strong network & seeking mentorship can provide valuable guidance. **[SEGMENT 2: The Don'ts of Personal Development]** Now, let's explore the "Don'ts" - the common mistakes that can hinder your personal development journey. 1. **Procrastination**    - Statistic: A study by Piers Steel, a researcher on procrastination, found that 95% of people procrastinate to some degree.    - Value: Procrastination delays progress & keeps you from reaching your full potential. 2. **Negative Self-Talk**    - Statistic: It's estimated that 80% of our thoughts are negative.    - Value: Self-limiting beliefs can sabotage your efforts; positive self-talk is crucial for growth. 3. **Ignoring Mental Health**    - Statistic: The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide.    - Value: Neglecting mental health can hinder personal development; if you need help ask for it. 4. **Fear of Change**    - Statistic: The American Psychological Association reports that fear of change is a common barrier to personal growth.    - Value: Embracing change is necessary for personal development; it leads to adaptability & growth. 5. **Comparison to Others**    - Statistic: Research from Social Comparison Theory shows that constant social comparison can lead to decreased self-esteem.    - Value: Focus on your own progress rather than comparing yourself to others. **[SEGMENT 3: The Value of Personal Development]** So, why invest in personal development? Let's look at some compelling reasons. 1. **Career Advancement**    - Statistic: 70% of employers believe that soft skills are just as important as technical skills.    - Value: Personal development enhances soft skills like communication & leadership. 2. **Happiness & Well-Being**    - Statistic: A study in the journal "Emotion" found a strong connection between personal development & increased life satisfaction.    - Value: Self-improvement often leads to a happier & more fulfilling life. 3. **Financial Success**    - Statistic: Research by the University of California found a positive correlation between financial success & personal development.    - Value: Skills acquired through personal development can lead to higher income & financial security. 4. **Improved Relationships**    - Statistic: A study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family found that personal growth positively impacts relationships.    - Value: Developing better interpersonal skills enhances relationships with family, friends, and colleagues. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunaie/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/saunaie/support

Mark Twain once said, “Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.” As an antidote to that Ralph welcomes Professor Piers Steel, author of “The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done.” Plus, Ralph urges listeners to sign up for The Capitol Hill Citizen Association, another way to organize citizens to put pressure on the branch of our government where things must get done, the United States Congress.  Dr. Piers Steel is one of the world's leading researchers and speakers on the science of motivation and procrastination. Dr. Steel is a professor in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources area at the University of Calgary, and is the Brookfield Research Chair at the Haskayne School of Business. He is the author of The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done.The root of procrastination is impulsiveness. Impulsiveness is valuing the now more than the later… We're designed to value the now. And this was really adaptive for a long time. It's not a bad trait. It's just that we've designed a world to take advantage of every little flaw that we have in our decision-making system.Dr. Piers SteelYou have to deal with yourself as an imperfect, flawed creature and deal with the reality of that. We're not robotic angels of perfection. We have limitations. And when I actually act within my limitations, I get stuff done.Dr. Piers SteelWe're superstars of self-control in the animal kingdom. We're able to hunt and kill most anything because we're willing to actually put in the delay of gratification. That's really what makes us great. But we're still not ready for things that are happening even a year off, much less five or ten.Dr. Piers SteelMore people will listen to what we just said about becoming part of the Capitol Hill Citizen Association and say to themselves, “I'm going to get around to doing that,” than the actual number of people who do it in a prompt period of time. So it would be very good to listen to Professor Steel's suggestions and read his book, because we cannot afford procrastinatory citizens. We have a procrastinatory Congress, and the citizens have got to get them to anticipate, to foresee, to forestall so many of the omnicidal urgencies that are coming at our country and other countries around the world.Ralph NaderTo become a member of the Capitol Hill Citizen Association, click here.In Case You Haven't Heard with Francesco DeSantis1. On August 28th, 20 groups – ranging from Left-wing anti-war organizations like Veterans for Peace to Right-leaning government transparency groups like R Street Institute – sent a letter to the Chairs and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees demanding they maintain Rep. Jamaal Bowman's Cost of War amendment in the final National Defense Authorization Act. This provision “requires public disclosure about the cost of the U.S.' overseas military footprint and gives the American people greater transparency on military spending.” Hopefully, the left-right consensus on this issue is enough to maintain this amendment.2. In other Pentagon news, the Intercept reports that Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, has introduced an amendment demanding the Pentagon “collect information on trainees who overthrow their governments,” following the recent spate of coups in Africa. Gaetz told the Intercept “The Department of Defense, up until this point, has not kept data regarding the people they train who participate in coups to overthrow democratically elected — or any — governments.” This could become a flashpoint as Congress prepares to consider the 2024 NDAA when it returns from recess in September.3. As expected, tensions are running high in Guatemala following the upset victory of anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arevalo. Opponents of Arevalo had urged the country's electoral tribunal to suspend his Semilla party on dubious legal grounds, which the tribunal resisted hewing to the letter of the law which dictated such actions could not be taken during the electoral process. After the election however, the party was officially suspended. Now, Reuters reports that suspension has been revoked, following a mass mobilization of Arevalo supporters in Guatemala City. It seems unlikely however that Arevalo's political opponents will accept his victory without a fight.4. In a dangerous, anti-free speech move, the Attorney General of Georgia has filed RICO indictments against 42 individuals involved with the Stop Cop City protest movement, the Atlanta Community Press Collective reports. This is the latest in a long line of attempts to quash opposition to the project, which has so far included trumped up domestic terrorism charges and arrests for handing out flyers.  5. Bloomberg reports that President Biden and Brazilian President Lula will jointly call for new worker protections at the upcoming General Assembly of the United Nations. While the article notes the two leaders have been “at odds” over China and Russia, they align on the topic of labor unionization. The two presidents have found common ground before, such as on the issue of climate change.6. Visual Effects workers at Disney have filed for unionization, per the Hollywood Reporter. Approximately 80% of VFX staff have already signed union cards, demanding an NLRB election and representation by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees or IATSE. This comes on the heels of a similar announcement by VFX workers at Marvel, a Disney subsidiary. In recent years. studios have increasingly relied on VFX workers in a rather blatant attempt to cut costs, as VFX workers have generally been non-union.7. At long last, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced the first ten drugs that will be subject to Mecicare negotiations to bring down prices. These are: Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbruvica, Stelara and – crucially – several brands of insulin. HHS noted that “These selected drugs accounted for $50.5 billion in total [Medicare] Part D gross covered prescription drug costs, or about 20%, of total Part D gross between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023.”8. The Washington Post reports Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su has proposed new overtime rules intended to “extend overtime pay to an additional 3.6 million salaried white-collar workers in the United States.” According to current rules, workers are exempt from overtime if they make over $35,568 per year; the new rules would extend to workers making under $55,000 annually. If implemented, this would mean a whole new class of workers would be eligible for time-and-a-half pay if they work more than 40 hours per week.9. Per Republic Report: “The U.S. Department of Education announced…that it is cancelling $72 million in student loan obligations for more than 2,300 former students who attended for-profit Ashford University between 2009 and 2020.” Yet, even now the shady operators behind Ashford may still be able to squeeze money out of the taxpayers via a convoluted buyout by the University of Arizona Global Campus. Still, this marks a significant victory in a legal battle that has raged for over a decade, with Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa calling Ashford a “complete scam” all the way back in 2011.10. Finally, in more debt related news, the Philadelphia Inquirer has published a piece detailing how the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt was able to purchase – and forgive – over $1.6 million in medical debt. As the piece explains “When hospitals or physician groups have delinquent debts they have little chance of collecting on, they'll typically go to what's called the secondary market and sell their portfolios for pennies on the dollar.” It was on this secondary market that RIP Medical Debt was able to buy $1.6 million worth of debt for just $17,000. In celebration, “30 proud, self-described gutter-pagan, mostly queer dirtbags in their early 30s,” gathered for a ritual burning of an oversized medical bill. Someone chanted “debt is hell” and the crowd responded “let it burn.” Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from Piers Steel's "The Procrastination Equation". See the full +1 here: https://www.heroic.us/optimize/plus-one/motivation-energy-x-value-x-expectancy-impulsivity-x-delay   Move from Theory to Practice to Mastery:   Pre-Order Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential today: https://www.heroic.us/book Listen to the first 45+ minutes of the audiobook here: https://www.heroic.us/optimize/the-book/audiobook-preview Join over 13,000+ people from 115+ countries who have answered the call to their Heroic quests: https://heroic.us/coach   More goodness:   Download the Heroic app: http://heroic.us/app-download Grab some Heroic swag: https://store-heroic.myshopify.com/ Become a Heroic Ambassador: http://heroic.us/ambassador   -   Get in touch:   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HeroicBrian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heroicbrian/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/heroicbrian Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heroicbrian Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heroicbrian/ Email: support@heroic.us

Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from Piers Steel's "The Procrastination Equation". See the full +1 here: https://www.heroic.us/optimize/plus-one/handy-dandy-motivational-calculator   Move from Theory to Practice to Mastery:   Pre-Order Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential today: https://www.heroic.us/book   Listen to the first 45+ minutes of the audiobook here: https://www.heroic.us/optimize/the-book/audiobook-preview   Join over 13,000+ people from 115+ countries who have answered the call to their Heroic quests: https://heroic.us/coach   More goodness:   Download the Heroic app: http://heroic.us/app-download Grab some Heroic swag: https://store-heroic.myshopify.com/ Become a Heroic Ambassador: http://heroic.us/ambassador   -    Get in touch: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HeroicBrian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heroicbrian/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/heroicbrian Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heroicbrian Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heroicbrian/ Email: support@heroic.us

La mayor parte de personas en este planeta nuestro batallan cada día con la procrastinación... y no tienen ni idea de cómo vencerla.En este episodio analizo el libro Procrastinación (The Procrastination Equation, 2010), de Piers Steel, en el que, aparte de diseccionar la naturaleza de la procrastinación, te compartiremos estrategias contrastadas que te van a permitir recuperar el control de tu vida y alcanzar tus metas.Aquí puedes conseguir este libro:AQUÍ TIENES EL LIBRO "Procrastinación": https://geni.us/procrastinacion En esta página encuentras las notas del episodio y todos los enlaces mencionados:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/288Ah! ¿Quieres recibir cada semana por email, gratis, estrategias y tácticas para ser mejor empleado, emprendedor y empresario? Suscríbete a mi email semanal aquí:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/newsletter ¿Quieres saber cómo aumentar tu velocidad de lectura? Mírate este vídeo y quizás hasta la dupliques en sólo 20 minutos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0VqCZlLuEc En Youtube y en Instagram estamos publicando también contenido exclusivo. Suscríbete ahora:Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/LibrosparaemprendedoresNetInstagram: https://instagram.com/librosparaemprendedores Además, recuerda que puedes suscribirte al podcast en:- Nuestra página: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/feed/podcast- iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/libros-para-emprendedores/id1076142249?l=es- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qXuVDCYF8HvkEynJwHULb y seguirnos en Twitter ( https://twitter.com/EmprendeLibros ) y en Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/EmprendeLibros/ ). This content is under Fair Use:Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research.Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.I do not own the original content. All rights and credit go to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La mayor parte de personas en este planeta nuestro batallan cada día con la procrastinación... y no tienen ni idea de cómo vencerla.En este episodio analizo el libro Procrastinación (The Procrastination Equation, 2010), de Piers Steel, en el que, aparte de diseccionar la naturaleza de la procrastinación, te compartiremos estrategias contrastadas que te van a permitir recuperar el control de tu vida y alcanzar tus metas.Aquí puedes conseguir este libro:AQUÍ TIENES EL LIBRO "Procrastinación": https://geni.us/procrastinacion En esta página encuentras las notas del episodio y todos los enlaces mencionados:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/288Ah! ¿Quieres recibir cada semana por email, gratis, estrategias y tácticas para ser mejor empleado, emprendedor y empresario? Suscríbete a mi email semanal aquí:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/newsletter ¿Quieres saber cómo aumentar tu velocidad de lectura? Mírate este vídeo y quizás hasta la dupliques en sólo 20 minutos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0VqCZlLuEc En Youtube y en Instagram estamos publicando también contenido exclusivo. Suscríbete ahora:Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/LibrosparaemprendedoresNetInstagram: https://instagram.com/librosparaemprendedores Además, recuerda que puedes suscribirte al podcast en:- Nuestra página: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/feed/podcast- iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/libros-para-emprendedores/id1076142249?l=es- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qXuVDCYF8HvkEynJwHULb y seguirnos en Twitter ( https://twitter.com/EmprendeLibros ) y en Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/EmprendeLibros/ ). This content is under Fair Use:Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for "Fair Use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research.Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.I do not own the original content. All rights and credit go to its rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to an insightful episode of "Room by Room: The Home Organization Science Insights Podcast." Join host Gabriella Joustra as she engages in a captivating conversation with Dr. Piers Steel, a distinguished professor of psychology and organizational behavior at the esteemed Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. With his Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and unparalleled expertise, Dr. Steel stands as a leading authority on the fascinating subject of procrastination.   As the author of the acclaimed book, "The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done," Dr. Steel has revolutionized our understanding of procrastination. His vast body of work, comprising over 80 published research articles, has garnered international recognition, and featured in esteemed publications like the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.   In this episode, Gabriella and Dr. Steel embark on an exploration of "How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Getting Things Done at Home." Together, they redefine procrastination and dispel common misconceptions surrounding it. Delving into the realm of home organization, they shed light on the impact procrastination can have and share invaluable best practices to overcome this common challenge, fostering productivity within the home environment.   If you find yourself grappling with procrastination and yearning for effective strategies to enhance your productivity at home, this episode is a must-listen. Join Gabriella and Dr. Steel on this enlightening journey as they unlock the keys to overcoming procrastination and creating an organized, efficient, and inspiring living space. Discover transformative insights and actionable tips that will empower you to embrace productivity and reclaim control over your home environment.   Don't miss this opportunity to gain profound insights from the renowned Dr. Piers Steel. Tune in to "Room by Room: The Home Organization Science Insights Podcast" and embark on a transformative journey toward a more organized, productive, and fulfilling home life.   Follow Dr. Steel's work at http://www.procrastinus.com/ and http://www.hubmeta.com/. Also, check out his book, The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Things Done, at https://www.amazon.com.au/Procrastination-Equation-Putting-Things-Getting/dp/0273767704/.   Room by Room is produced by the Home Organization Science Labs, a division of LMSL, the Life Management Science Labs.   Explore LMSL at https://lifemanagementsciencelabs.com/ and visit http://ho.lmsl.net/ for additional information about Home Organization Labs. Follow us on Social Media to stay updated: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCODVhYC-MeTMKQEwwRr8WVQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/homeorg.science.labs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homeorg.science.labs/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HOScienceLabs LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/home-organization-science-labs Discord: https://discord.gg/HOSL Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@home.org.science.labs Pinterest: https://id.pinterest.com/homeorganizationsciencelabs/   You can also subscribe and listen to the show on your preferred podcasting platforms: Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/room-by-room-the-home-organization-science-insights-podcast/id1648509192 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7kUgWDXmcGl5XHbYspPtcW Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/37779f90-f736-4502-8dc4-3a653b8492bd iHeart Radio: https://iheart.com/podcast/102862783 Podbean: https://homeorganizationinsights.podbean.com/ PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/3402163 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/room-by-room-the-home-organiza-4914172 Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2hvbWVvcmdhbml6YXRpb25pbnNpZ2h0cy9mZWVkLnhtbA

What to do - when you feel like doing nothing - depends on the reasons you're unmotivated and unproductive. In episode 59 of The Incrementalist, you will learn:1) The Procrastination Equation, a formula by Dr. Piers Steel that helps explains why you feel unmotivated and why you procrastinate.  2) 10 tips to get out of a mental slump and motivation rut. Watch the video, What to Do When You're Motivated to Do Nothing, on our YouTube channel, The Incrementalist - A Productivity Show. It adds another dimension to what you hear on the podcast. Theme Music by:Sebastian Brian Mehr. Album –  Olemus; Song – La Nieve Check out the book: The Incrementalist, A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small StepsEmail: dyan@dyanwilliams.comVisit website: www.dyanwilliams.com

In this episode of Better Thinking, Nesh Nikolic speaks with Piers Steel about how procrastination shows up in one's life and the related forces that make it irresistible. Piers Steel likes to think he is among the world's foremost researchers and speakers on the science of motivation and procrastination. Well, he is a Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Calgary, where he teaches human resources and organizational dynamics at the Haskayne School of Business. His research has appeared in several outlets around the world, ranging from Psychology Today and New Scientist to Good Housekeeping and The New Yorker. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife and two sons. Aside from being a practicing procrastinator from an early age, Piers started formally studying the phenomenon while getting his doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Working with Dr. Thomas Brothen, he had access to a class administered through a Computerized Personalized System of Instruction, an arrangement that allows students to progress through a course at their own pace but is well known for creating high levels of procrastination. Also, being a computerized course meant that every stitch of work that the students completed had a time-date stamp exact to the second. It is an ideal setting for studying procrastination. On top of this, Piers also applied meta-analysis to the study of procrastination, a technique for mathematically summarizing all previous research done on the topic (some 800 previous studies). Together, these techniques provided the results for his PhD thesis “The Nature and Measurement of Procrastination.” Episode link at https://neshnikolic.com/podcast/piers-steelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We've all had an action item on our to-do list that has been there all week or even all month, and we avoid it like the plague. You know you should be working on it, but you've refilled your water bottle 5 times, done your client service work, checked all your social media, completed some online business training, and are reading any blog you can find. And then the activity you have been dreading is now due and the deadline has been missed. For some, this procrastination cycle just keeps repeating. It's normal to procrastinate, most times because a task is overwhelming or you don't like doing it even though you are the only one who can do it, but it is probably affecting your business more than you realize. Why Do You Procrastinate? Understanding why you are not working on something can help you to manage it. Piers Steel, who wrote The Procrastination Equation states that procrastination occurs for three distinct reasons: 1. Lack of self-confidence to achieve a goal. 2. Not interested in the task. 3. Distracted by impulsive behavior. According to Steel, if you do not value or expect that you will achieve your goal, you are more likely to procrastinate in some aspect of it. If you are influenced by short-term gratifications, you can also be distracted from reaching your goal. These distractions steal time away from what you should be working on and cause you to lose productivity and motivation. How Can I Reduce or Stop Procrastinating (you might be wondering)? Let's explore 9 tips that will help you. 1. Announce Your Goals. Telling people about what you want to achieve holds you more accountable to it. I strongly suggest you also want to write about it or write it down for your own purposes. Revisit or talk about it often, so that it does not stray too far from you mind. Tracking your goals also helps you to not procrastinate because you know where you are at against your annual goals at any given moment in time. You can easily measure the progress you are making. 2. Break it Down. Cut your task into smaller pieces that are more manageable to handle. You'll find that you feel like your workload is not quite as overwhelming and you will be able to knock off a couple of tasks in no time. It is easier to make progress on tasks when you have them broken down into smaller pieces. 3. Make a Timeline. Having one deadline for a project is pure procrastination. When you break your project into milestones, set a deadline for each one, and sit back and feel a sense of accomplishment as you check them off. You should do this daily, so you know what you have to get done every day or every week. 4. Anticipate Challenges. No goal is without challenges, so expect that you will run into some roadblocks, but don't let them slow you down. Think about solutions ahead of time, so that when issues do come up, you are prepared to conquer them. 5. Eliminate Time Wasters. Know you are susceptible to getting sucked in by the number of things that happen in an office each day. Put a time limit on how often you check your email, for example, only at before lunch and at the end of the day. Time block your calendar and work hard to follow what it says to do, when it says to do it. Whatever your major temptations are, find ways to eliminate or limit the time you spend on them. We all waste at least two hours a day on things that are not moving our business forward. You don't have to be part of that group, if you choose to reduce or eliminate time wasters. 6. Be Choosy. People can be huge time wasters too. Maybe your chatty clients want to tell you about what's new in their life during a business meeting. It's okay to take a raincheck on that conversation, as you haven't allocated the time for a lot of personal conversations time in the scheduled business meeting. You want to work by appointment only, face-to-face or on the phone, as much as possible. Your time is valuable, and you have to choose how you spend every second of every day – so be smart about how you use your valuable time. Your team members can schedule time to speak with you just like clients and prospects do. 7. Start with the Best. What part of your activity list do you need to do the most for you to bring in revenue? For example, if you need to make calls to prospects but you may not like this part of your job, do it first thing in the morning and move on to the other activities that you may enjoy more. You have to do only what you can do and nobody else can do, whether you like it or not. It will create momentum for you to continue other parts of the job and will make you feel good about getting something very important done. 8. One Activity at a Time. When you really must get a job done, just concentrate on that task. Don't try to get other things done at the same time because it will distract you. Get one thing done well and completely before you move onto the next activity. If you need to log-off of email or put your phone on silent to help you focus on what you need to and reduce distractions, then do it for crying out loud. 9. Just Do It. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just get it done. You can discuss, strategize, and write lists all day, but without any action, you won't be any better off. Force yourself to sit down and knock off one of your high payoff items on your list before you take lunch, for example. Then get to another one before your afternoon meeting. Procrastinating some of your work tasks can mean that it will negatively affect your business. As soon as you start to fall behind on a project, reset, and use some of these tactics to motivate yourself to work hard. You'll find that you can accelerate your results if you cut down on the amount of procrastination you do. We all can benefit from reducing procrastination in some area of our life. If you would like to reduce your procrastination so you can make more money and work less, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ Want more from me? Subscribe to my business success tips and resources blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries. Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you. To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. Subscribe to my high-value business success tips and resources Blog https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Subscribe to my YouTube channel with business success principles (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Connect with me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Connect with me on Linked-in (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach) - Connect with me on Pinterest (https://pinterest.com/resultsrule/) - Connect with me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/annebachrach/) As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Author of Excuses Don't Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

We've all had an action item on our to-do list that has been there all week or even all month, and we avoid it like the plague. You know you should be working on it, but you've refilled your water bottle 5 times, done your client service work, checked all your social media, completed some online business training, and are reading any blog you can find. And then the activity you have been dreading is now due and the deadline has been missed. For some, this procrastination cycle just keeps repeating. It's normal to procrastinate, most times because a task is overwhelming or you don't like doing it even though you are the only one who can do it, but it is probably affecting your business more than you realize. Why Do You Procrastinate? Understanding why you are not working on something can help you to manage it. Piers Steel, who wrote The Procrastination Equation states that procrastination occurs for three distinct reasons: 1. Lack of self-confidence to achieve a goal. 2. Not interested in the task. 3. Distracted by impulsive behavior. According to Steel, if you do not value or expect that you will achieve your goal, you are more likely to procrastinate in some aspect of it. If you are influenced by short-term gratifications, you can also be distracted from reaching your goal. These distractions steal time away from what you should be working on and cause you to lose productivity and motivation. How Can I Reduce or Stop Procrastinating (you might be wondering)? Let's explore 9 tips that will help you. 1. Announce Your Goals. Telling people about what you want to achieve holds you more accountable to it. I strongly suggest you also want to write about it or write it down for your own purposes. Revisit or talk about it often, so that it does not stray too far from you mind. Tracking your goals also helps you to not procrastinate because you know where you are at against your annual goals at any given moment in time. You can easily measure the progress you are making. 2. Break it Down. Cut your task into smaller pieces that are more manageable to handle. You'll find that you feel like your workload is not quite as overwhelming and you will be able to knock off a couple of tasks in no time. It is easier to make progress on tasks when you have them broken down into smaller pieces. 3. Make a Timeline. Having one deadline for a project is pure procrastination. When you break your project into milestones, set a deadline for each one, and sit back and feel a sense of accomplishment as you check them off. You should do this daily, so you know what you have to get done every day or every week. 4. Anticipate Challenges. No goal is without challenges, so expect that you will run into some roadblocks, but don't let them slow you down. Think about solutions ahead of time, so that when issues do come up, you are prepared to conquer them. 5. Eliminate Time Wasters. Know you are susceptible to getting sucked in by the number of things that happen in an office each day. Put a time limit on how often you check your email, for example, only at before lunch and at the end of the day. Time block your calendar and work hard to follow what it says to do, when it says to do it. Whatever your major temptations are, find ways to eliminate or limit the time you spend on them. We all waste at least two hours a day on things that are not moving our business forward. You don't have to be part of that group, if you choose to reduce or eliminate time wasters. 6. Be Choosy. People can be huge time wasters too. Maybe your chatty clients want to tell you about what's new in their life during a business meeting. It's okay to take a raincheck on that conversation, as you haven't allocated the time for a lot of personal conversations time in the scheduled business meeting. You want to work by appointment only, face-to-face or on the phone, as much as possible. Your time is valuable, and you have to choose how you spend every second of every day – so be smart about how you use your valuable time. Your team members can schedule time to speak with you just like clients and prospects do. 7. Start with the Best. What part of your activity list do you need to do the most for you to bring in revenue? For example, if you need to make calls to prospects but you may not like this part of your job, do it first thing in the morning and move on to the other activities that you may enjoy more. You have to do only what you can do and nobody else can do, whether you like it or not. It will create momentum for you to continue other parts of the job and will make you feel good about getting something very important done. 8. One Activity at a Time. When you really must get a job done, just concentrate on that task. Don't try to get other things done at the same time because it will distract you. Get one thing done well and completely before you move onto the next activity. If you need to log-off of email or put your phone on silent to help you focus on what you need to and reduce distractions, then do it for crying out loud. 9. Just Do It. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just get it done. You can discuss, strategize, and write lists all day, but without any action, you won't be any better off. Force yourself to sit down and knock off one of your high payoff items on your list before you take lunch, for example. Then get to another one before your afternoon meeting. Procrastinating some of your work tasks can mean that it will negatively affect your business. As soon as you start to fall behind on a project, reset, and use some of these tactics to motivate yourself to work hard. You'll find that you can accelerate your results if you cut down on the amount of procrastination you do. We all can benefit from reducing procrastination in some area of our life. If you would like to reduce your procrastination so you can make more money and work less, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ Want more from me? Subscribe to my business success tips and resources blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries. Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you. To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. Subscribe to my high-value business success tips and resources Blog https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Subscribe to my YouTube channel with business success principles (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Connect with me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Connect with me on Linked-in (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach) - Connect with me on Pinterest (https://pinterest.com/resultsrule/) - Connect with me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/annebachrach/) As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Author of Excuses Don't Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

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We've all had an action item on our to-do list that has been there all week or even all month, and we avoid it like the plague. You know you should be working on it, but you've refilled your water bottle 5 times, done your client service work, checked all your social media, completed some online business training, and are reading any blog you can find. And then the activity you have been dreading is now due and the deadline has been missed. For some, this procrastination cycle just keeps repeating. It's normal to procrastinate, most times because a task is overwhelming or you don't like doing it even though you are the only one who can do it, but it is probably affecting your business more than you realize. Why Do You Procrastinate? Understanding why you are not working on something can help you to manage it. Piers Steel, who wrote The Procrastination Equation states that procrastination occurs for three distinct reasons: 1. Lack of self-confidence to achieve a goal. 2. Not interested in the task. 3. Distracted by impulsive behavior. According to Steel, if you do not value or expect that you will achieve your goal, you are more likely to procrastinate in some aspect of it. If you are influenced by short-term gratifications, you can also be distracted from reaching your goal. These distractions steal time away from what you should be working on and cause you to lose productivity and motivation. How Can I Reduce or Stop Procrastinating (you might be wondering)? Let's explore 9 tips that will help you. 1. Announce Your Goals. Telling people about what you want to achieve holds you more accountable to it. I strongly suggest you also want to write about it or write it down for your own purposes. Revisit or talk about it often, so that it does not stray too far from you mind. Tracking your goals also helps you to not procrastinate because you know where you are at against your annual goals at any given moment in time. You can easily measure the progress you are making. 2. Break it Down. Cut your task into smaller pieces that are more manageable to handle. You'll find that you feel like your workload is not quite as overwhelming and you will be able to knock off a couple of tasks in no time. It is easier to make progress on tasks when you have them broken down into smaller pieces. 3. Make a Timeline. Having one deadline for a project is pure procrastination. When you break your project into milestones, set a deadline for each one, and sit back and feel a sense of accomplishment as you check them off. You should do this daily, so you know what you have to get done every day or every week. 4. Anticipate Challenges. No goal is without challenges, so expect that you will run into some roadblocks, but don't let them slow you down. Think about solutions ahead of time, so that when issues do come up, you are prepared to conquer them. 5. Eliminate Time Wasters. Know you are susceptible to getting sucked in by the number of things that happen in an office each day. Put a time limit on how often you check your email, for example, only at before lunch and at the end of the day. Time block your calendar and work hard to follow what it says to do, when it says to do it. Whatever your major temptations are, find ways to eliminate or limit the time you spend on them. We all waste at least two hours a day on things that are not moving our business forward. You don't have to be part of that group, if you choose to reduce or eliminate time wasters. 6. Be Choosy. People can be huge time wasters too. Maybe your chatty clients want to tell you about what's new in their life during a business meeting. It's okay to take a raincheck on that conversation, as you haven't allocated the time for a lot of personal conversations time in the scheduled business meeting. You want to work by appointment only, face-to-face or on the phone, as much as possible. Your time is valuable, and you have to choose how you spend every second of every day – so be smart about how you use your valuable time. Your team members can schedule time to speak with you just like clients and prospects do. 7. Start with the Best. What part of your activity list do you need to do the most for you to bring in revenue? For example, if you need to make calls to prospects but you may not like this part of your job, do it first thing in the morning and move on to the other activities that you may enjoy more. You have to do only what you can do and nobody else can do, whether you like it or not. It will create momentum for you to continue other parts of the job and will make you feel good about getting something very important done. 8. One Activity at a Time. When you really must get a job done, just concentrate on that task. Don't try to get other things done at the same time because it will distract you. Get one thing done well and completely before you move onto the next activity. If you need to log-off of email or put your phone on silent to help you focus on what you need to and reduce distractions, then do it for crying out loud. 9. Just Do It. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just get it done. You can discuss, strategize, and write lists all day, but without any action, you won't be any better off. Force yourself to sit down and knock off one of your high payoff items on your list before you take lunch, for example. Then get to another one before your afternoon meeting. Procrastinating some of your work tasks can mean that it will negatively affect your business. As soon as you start to fall behind on a project, reset, and use some of these tactics to motivate yourself to work hard. You'll find that you can accelerate your results if you cut down on the amount of procrastination you do. We all can benefit from reducing procrastination in some area of our life. If you would like to reduce your procrastination so you can make more money and work less, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ Want more from me? Subscribe to my business success tips and resources blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". You can find The Accountability Minute on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ as well as on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries. Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. If you are getting value from any of Podcasts, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it, and love to hear from you. To help you stay focused and on track to achieving your goals, check out these other high-value resources. Subscribe to my high-value business success tips and resources Blog https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) - Subscribe to my YouTube channel with business success principles (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) - Connect with me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) - Connect with me on Linked-in (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach) - Connect with me on Pinterest (https://pinterest.com/resultsrule/) - Connect with me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/annebachrach/) As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Author of Excuses Don't Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.

[[:encoded, "We've all had an action item on our to-do list that has been there all week or even all month, and we avoid it like the plague. You know you should be working on it, but you've refilled your water bottle 5 times, done your client service work, checked all your social media, completed some online business training, and are reading any blog you can find. And then the activity you have been dreading is now due and the deadline has been missed. For some, this procrastination cycle just keeps repeating. It's normal to procrastinate, most times because a task is overwhelming or you don't like doing it even though you are the only one who can do it, but it is probably affecting your business more than you realize. nnWhy Do You Procrastinate?nUnderstanding why you are not working on something can help you to manage it. Piers Steel, who wrote The Procrastination Equation states that procrastination occurs for three distinct reasons:n1.tLack of self-confidence to achieve a goal.n2.tNot interested in the task.n3.tDistracted by impulsive behavior.nnAccording to Steel, if you do not value or expect that you will achieve your goal, you are more likely to procrastinate in some aspect of it. If you are influenced by short-term gratifications, you can also be distracted from reaching your goal. These distractions steal time away from what you should be working on and cause you to lose productivity and motivation.nnHow Can I Reduce or Stop Procrastinating (you might be wondering)? nnLet's explore 9 tips that will help you.n1.tAnnounce Your Goals. Telling people about what you want to achieve holds you more accountable to it. I strongly suggest you also want to write about it or write it down for your own purposes. Revisit or talk about it often, so that it does not stray too far from you mind. Tracking your goals also helps you to not procrastinate because you know where you are at against your annual goals at any given moment in time. You can easily measure the progress you are making. nn2.tBreak it Down. Cut your task into smaller pieces that are more manageable to handle. You'll find that you feel like your workload is not quite as overwhelming and you will be able to knock off a couple of tasks in no time. It is easier to make progress on tasks when you have them broken down into smaller pieces. nn3.tMake a Timeline. Having one deadline for a project is pure procrastination. When you break your project into milestones, set a deadline for each one, and sit back and feel a sense of accomplishment as you check them off. You should do this daily, so you know what you have to get done every day or every week.nn4.tAnticipate Challenges. No goal is without challenges, so expect that you will run into some roadblocks, but don't let them slow you down. Think about solutions ahead of time, so that when issues do come up, you are prepared to conquer them. nn5.tEliminate Time Wasters. Know you are susceptible to getting sucked in by the number of things that happen in an office each day. Put a time limit on how often you check your email, for example, only at before lunch and at the end of the day. Time block your calendar and work hard to follow what it says to do, when it says to do it. Whatever your major temptations are, find ways to eliminate or limit the time you spend on them. We all waste at least two hours a day on things that are not moving our business forward. You don't have to be part of that group, if you choose to reduce or eliminate time wasters.nn6.tBe Choosy. People can be huge time wasters too. Maybe your chatty clients want to tell you about what's new in their life during a business meeting. It's okay to take a raincheck on that conversation, as you haven't allocated the time for a lot of personal conversations time in the scheduled business meetinSupport the show

We've all had an action item on our to-do list that has been there all week or even all month, and we avoid it like the plague. You know you should be working on it, but you've refilled your water bottle 5 times, done your client service work, checked all your social media, completed some online business training, and are reading any blog you can find. And then the activity you have been dreading is now due and the deadline has been missed. For some, this procrastination cycle just keeps repeating. It's normal to procrastinate, most times because a task is overwhelming or you don't like doing it even though you are the only one who can do it, but it is probably affecting your business more than you realize. Why Do You Procrastinate? Understanding why you are not working on something can help you to manage it. Piers Steel, who wrote The Procrastination Equation states that procrastination occurs for three distinct reasons: 1. Lack of self-confidence to achieve a goal. 2. Not interested in the task. 3. Distracted by impulsive behavior. According to Steel, if you do not value or expect that you will achieve your goal, you are more likely to procrastinate in some aspect of it. If you are influenced by short-term gratifications, you can also be distracted from reaching your goal. These distractions steal time away from what you should be working on and cause you to lose productivity and motivation. How Can I Reduce or Stop Procrastinating (you might be wondering)? Let's explore 9 tips that will help you. 1. Announce Your Goals. Telling people about what you want to achieve holds you more accountable to it. I strongly suggest you also want to write about it or write it down for your own purposes. Revisit or talk about it often, so that it does not stray too far from you mind. Tracking your goals also helps you to not procrastinate because you know where you are at against your annual goals at any given moment in time. You can easily measure the progress you are making. 2. Break it Down. Cut your task into smaller pieces that are more manageable to handle. You'll find that you feel like your workload is not quite as overwhelming and you will be able to knock off a couple of tasks in no time. It is easier to make progress on tasks when you have them broken down into smaller pieces. 3. Make a Timeline. Having one deadline for a project is pure procrastination. When you break your project into milestones, set a deadline for each one, and sit back and feel a sense of accomplishment as you check them off. You should do this daily, so you know what you have to get done every day or every week. 4. Anticipate Challenges. No goal is without challenges, so expect that you will run into some roadblocks, but don't let them slow you down. Think about solutions ahead of time, so that when issues do come up, you are prepared to conquer them. 5. Eliminate Time Wasters. Know you are susceptible to getting sucked in by the number of things that happen in an office each day. Put a time limit on how often you check your email, for example, only at before lunch and at the end of the day. Time block your calendar and work hard to follow what it says to do, when it says to do it. Whatever your major temptations are, find ways to eliminate or limit the time you spend on them. We all waste at least two hours a day on things that are not moving our business forward. You don't have to be part of that group, if you choose to reduce or eliminate time wasters. 6. Be Choosy. People can be huge time wasters too. Maybe your chatty clients want to tell you about what's new in their life during a business meeting. It's okay to take a raincheck on that conversation, as you haven't allocated the time for a lot of personal conversations time in the scheduled business meeting. You want to work by appointment only, face-to-face or on the phone, as much as possible. Your time is valuable, and you have to choose how you spend every second of every day – so be smart about how you use your valuable time. Your team members can schedule time to speak with you just like clients and prospects do. 7. Start with the Best. What part of your activity list do you need to do the most for you to bring in revenue? For example, if you need to make calls to prospects but you may not like this part of your job, do it first thing in the morning and move on to the other activities that you may enjoy more. You have to do only what you can do and nobody else can do, whether you like it or not. It will create momentum for you to continue other parts of the job and will make you feel good about getting something very important done. 8. One Activity at a Time. When you really must get a job done, just concentrate on that task. Don't try to get other things done at the same time because it will distract you. Get one thing done well and completely before you move onto the next activity. If you need to log-off of email or put your phone on silent to help you focus on what you need to and reduce distractions, then do it for crying out loud. 9. Just Do It. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just get it done. You can discuss, strategize, and write lists all day, but without any action, you won't be any better off. Force yourself to sit down and knock off one of your high payoff items on your list before you take lunch, for example. Then get to another one before your afternoon meeting. Procrastinating some of your work tasks can mean that it will negatively affect your business. As soon as you start to fall behind on a project, reset, and use some of these tactics to motivate yourself to work hard. You'll find that you can accelerate your results if you cut down on the amount of procrastination you do. We all can benefit from reducing procrastination in some area of our life. If you would like to reduce your procrastination so you can make more money and work less, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ The Results Accelerator™ Want more from me? Subscribe to my business success tips and resources blog by going to www.acountabilitycoach.com/blog. Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. Get your daily Accountability Minute shot of a single, simple, doable idea, so you can start your day off on the "right foot". 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Why Do You Procrastinate? Understanding why you are not working on something can help you to manage it. Piers Steel, who wrote The Procrastination Equation states that procrastination occurs for three distinct reasons: 1. Lack of self-confidence to achieve a goal. 2. Not interested in the task. 3. Distracted by impulsive behavior. According to Steel, if you do not value or expect that you will achieve your goal, you are more likely to procrastinate in some aspect of it. If you are influenced by short-term gratifications, you can also be distracted from reaching your goal. These distractions steal time away from what you should be working on and cause you to lose productivity and motivation. How Can I Reduce or Stop Procrastinating, you might be wondering? Tune in tomorrow for the first of 9 tips to help you to stop procrastinating. Subscribe to my high-value proven business success tips and resources Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) If you get value from these Accountability Minutes, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it and always love to hear from you. Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Want more from The Accountability Coach™, subscribe to more high-value content by looking for me on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries, or by going to https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573. Subscribe to my YouTube channel with short business success principles (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) Connect with me on Linked-In (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach) Connect with me on Pinterest (https://pinterest.com/resultsrule/) Connect with me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/annebachrach/) Connect with me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ Business professionals and Advisors who utilize Anne Bachrach's proven business-success systems make more money, work less, and enjoy better work life balance. Author of Excuses Don't Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit and more. Get your audio copies today.

Many studies have concluded around 80% of people suffer from procrastination and putting things off on a daily basis. So why is it we waste so much time? Better yet, why are we not addressing one of the biggest elephants in the room? In this episode, the hosts - referring to the works of leading expert on this subject Dr Piers Steel - cover the following: - Why we procrastinate effortlessly even when we know the ramifications and the science behind this - How it affects all types of individuals on a micro and macro level - How it stops us from having the most optimal connection with Allah - The ways in which we can eliminate this from our daily lives.

“Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.” - Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa Winning feels absolutely amazing. You feel like you are on top of the world. You feel invincible, like a proper superhero. But winning takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of courage. It takes a lot of guts and determination. That's what we need to talk about. What does it mean to really win? How do we win in this life? Do you feel like you are losing? Why?  In this episode, listen as I talk about what it means to be a true winner and how failure is not synonymous with losing.  Highlights: ✅ Doubt, fear and settling are the reasons why people lose.  ✅ If you are winning by outperforming other people, then it's not the healthiest way to win.  ✅ Winning is not the absence of challenges and setbacks, it's the ability to bounce back and believe that you can win.  Some important stories in this episode:

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ” - Tony Robbins  Intention and attention. Two things that we need to become who we want to be. What's really interesting is that we always have the right intentions when we want to change something in our lives but a lot of us fail to go beyond the honeymoon stage of that because we don't commit our attention to what's important. Change is difficult because it entails doing something you haven't done before. In this episode, listen as I talk about Piers Steel's Procrastination Equation and how you can overcome the habit of procrastinating. Highlights:

"Procrastination is the thief of time." - Charles Dickens I want to tell you something important about procrastination...but I'll do it tomorrow. A classic joke. But seriously, procrastination has been and still is a habit a lot of us have. How many important things have you delayed working on because you simply don't feel like doing it?  In this episode, listen as I talk about procrastination, how it interferes in our lives, and how knowing who we are and who we want to become can help us focus and be triumphant against procrastination. Highlights: ✅ You have the power to make changes in your life. You just have to figure out what you are going to do with that power. ✅ Fight through the feeling of not feeling it. You are more than what you think. ✅ Life is a competitive event, not with others, but with yourself. Some important stories in this episode: (8:32) How James Peters made me realize that I am putting off change that needs to be done in my life. (20:35) Discussion on Dr. Piers Steel's Procrastination Equation So how to beat procrastination? Make the decision of who you need to be. Be one of the 101 people to join the Mi365's Start One Stop One Challenge. This program is designed to: -help you think greater than how you feel -help you apply accountability -give you a tracking tool to keep you focused -encourage you by being a part of a gritty community  Get on our Waiting List! ⤵️⤵️⤵️ Start One Stop One Challenge Excited to hear your thoughts about this episode.  ------------------------------------------------- You can take advantage of our new exclusive free training; "How to get ahead, build long-lasting confidence and stay productive in four simple steps” This reveals; ​Why most people never build true long-lasting confidence and never get to live a happy, healthy life ​The exact strategy productive people use to become a master of their own time ​The tools you NEED to create YOUR BEST YEAR EVER https://coaching.mi365.me/workshop All our podcasts are available at: https://petecohen.com/podcast/ I help everyday people achieve their goals & dreams!  Helping and coaching people in my expertise. It is VERY satisfying to change people's lives so they improve and change their health, finances, relationships, confidence, and mindset.    Connect With Me! Come and join our free Pete Cohen Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/223961357935535/ Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/ About Pete Cohen: Pete Cohen is one of the world's leading life coaches and keynote speakers. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world have been motivated and inspired by Pete's presentations. He has professionally impacted the lives of thousands of people worldwide, including business executives, professional athletes, and everyday people.  Pete focuses on the importance of closing the gap in our lives between where we are and where we want to be, both personally and professionally.  It's then all about coaching you to remove the obstacles that are in your way and helping you install the habits of success.   Pete is the author of 19 published books, several of which have been best-sellers across the world, including Shut the Duck Up, Habit Busting, Life DIY, and Sort Your Life Out. He has also presented his own show on TV called The Coach and was the resident Life Coach on GMTV for 12 years. His new book Inspirators - Leading The Way In Leadership is available for free here - https://book.petecohen.com/ Check out my brand new 30 Day Kick Start Challenge In just 30 days, I will show you the Exact "Step By Step" Method to redesign your life like the top 1%. Feel extraordinary and take hold of life's boundless opportunities Mi365 30-Day Kick Start Your Life Let me guide, coach, and support you. Just give me 30 days and I'll give you the exact step-by-step method for getting you on your A-game and staying there for 365 days! Every day you'll have access to a new training session, introducing you to a new idea or concept. By investing the time each day, the programme will build over the 30 days to put you in a powerful place in your life.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is The Science of Winning at Life, Part 3: My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination, published by lukeprog. Part of the sequence: The Science of Winning at Life After three months of practice, I now use a single algorithm to beat procrastination most of the times I face it.1 It probably won't work for you quite like it did for me, but it's the best advice on motivation I've got, and it's a major reason I'm known for having the "gets shit done" property. There are reasons to hope that we can eventually break the chain of akrasia; maybe this post is one baby step in the right direction. How to Beat Procrastination explained our best current general theory of procrastination, called "temporal motivation theory" (TMT). As an exercise in practical advice backed by deep theories, this post explains the process I use to beat procrastination — a process implied by TMT. As a reminder, here's a rough sketch of how motivation works according to TMT: Or, as Piers Steel summarizes: Decrease the certainty or the size of a task's reward — its expectancy or its value — and you are unlikely to pursue its completion with any vigor. Increase the delay for the task's reward and our susceptibility to delay — impulsiveness — and motivation also dips. Of course, my motivation system is more complex than that. P.J. Eby likens TMT (as a guide for beating procrastination) to the "fuel, air, ignition, and compression" plan for starting your car: it might be true, but a more useful theory would include details and mechanism. That's a fair criticism. Just as an fMRI captures the "big picture" of brain function at low resolution, TMT captures the big picture of motivation. This big picture helps us see where we need to work at the gears-and-circuits level, so we can become the goal-directed consequentialists we'd like to be. So, I'll share my four-step algorithm below, and tackle the gears-and-circuits level in later posts. Step 1: Notice I'm procrastinating. This part's easy. I know I should do the task, but I feel averse to doing it, or I just don't feel motivated enough to care. So I put it off, even though my prefrontal cortex keeps telling me I'll be better off if I do it now. When this happens, I proceed to step 2. Step 2: Guess which unattacked part of the equation is causing me the most trouble. Now I get to play detective. Which part of the equation is causing me trouble, here? Does the task have low value because it's boring or painful or too difficult, or because the reward isn't that great? Do I doubt that completing the task will pay off? Would I have to wait a long time for my reward if I succeeded? Am I particularly impatient or impulsive, either now or in general? Which part of this problem do I need to attack? Actually, I lied. I like to play army sniper. I stare down my telescopic sight at the terms in the equation and interrogate them. "Is it you, Delay? Huh, motherfucker? Is it you? I've shot you before; don't think I won't do it again!" But not everyone was raised on violent videogames. You may prefer a different role-play. Anyway, I try to figure out where the main problem is. Here are some of the signs I look for: When I imagine myself doing the task, do I see myself bored and distracted instead of engaged and interested? Is the task uncomfortable, onerous, or painful? Am I nervous about the task, or afraid of what might happen if I undertake it? Has the task's payoff lost its value to me? Perhaps it never had much value to me in the first place? If my answer to any of these questions is "Yes," I'm probably facing the motivation problem of low value. Do I think I'm likely to succeed at the task? Do I think it's within my capabilities? Do I think I'll actually get the reward if I do succeed? If my answer to any of these questions is "No," I'm probably facing the problem of low e...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is The Science of Winning at Life, Part 2: How to Beat Procrastination, published by lukeprog. Part of the sequence: The Science of Winning at Life My own behavior baffles me. I find myself doing what I hate, and not doing what I really want to do! - Saint Paul (Romans 7:15) Once you're trained in BayesCraft, it may be tempting to tackle classic problems "from scratch" with your new Rationality Powers. But often, it's more effective to do a bit of scholarship first and at least start from the state of our scientific knowledge on the subject. Today, I want to tackle procrastination by summarizing what we know about it, and how to overcome it. Let me begin with three character vignettes... Eddie attended the sales seminar, read all the books, and repeated the self-affirmations in the mirror this morning. But he has yet to make his first sale. Rejection after rejection has demoralized him. He organizes his desk, surfs the internet, and puts off his cold calls until potential clients are leaving for the day. Three blocks away, Valerie stares at a blank document in Microsoft Word. Her essay assignment on municipal politics, due tomorrow, is mind-numbingly dull. She decides she needs a break, texts some friends, watches a show, and finds herself even less motivated to write the paper than before. At 10pm she dives in, but the result reflects the time she put into it: it's terrible. In the next apartment down, Tom is ahead of the game. He got his visa, bought his plane tickets, and booked time off for his vacation to the Dominican Republic. He still needs to reserve a hotel room, but that can be done anytime. Tom keeps pushing the task forward a week as he has more urgent things to do, and then forgets about it altogether. As he's packing, he remembers to book the room, but by now there are none left by the beach. When he arrives, he finds his room is 10 blocks from the beach and decorated with dead mosquitos. Eddie, Valerie, and Tom are all procrastinators, but in different ways.1 Eddie's problem is low expectancy. By now, he expects only failure. Eddie has low expectancy of success from making his next round of cold calls. Results from 39 procrastination studies show that low expectancy is a major cause of procrastination.2 You doubt your ability to follow through with the diet. You don't expect to get the job. You really should be going out and meeting girls and learning to flirt better, but you expect only rejection now, so you procrastinate. You have learned to be helpless. Valerie's problem is that her task has low value for her. We all put off what we dislike.3 It's easy to meet up with your friends for drinks or start playing a videogame; not so easy to start doing your taxes. This point may be obvious, but it's nice to see it confirmed in over a dozen scientific studies. We put off things we don't like to do. But the strongest predictor of procrastination is Tom's problem: impulsiveness. It would have been easy for Tom to book the hotel in advance, but he kept getting distracted by more urgent or interesting things, and didn't remember to book the hotel until the last minute, which left him with a poor selection of rooms. Dozens of studies have shown that procrastination is closely tied to impulsiveness.4 Impulsiveness fits into a broader component of procrastination: time. An event's impact on our decisions decreases as its temporal distance from us increases.5 We are less motivated by delayed rewards than by immediate rewards, and the more impulsive you are, the more your motivation is affected by such delays. Expectancy, value, delay, and impulsiveness are the four major components of procrastination. Piers Steel, a leading researcher on procrastination, explains: Decrease the certainty or the size of a task's reward - its expectancy or its value - and you are unlik...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is The Science of Winning at Life, Part 2: How to Beat Procrastination, published by lukeprog. Part of the sequence: The Science of Winning at Life My own behavior baffles me. I find myself doing what I hate, and not doing what I really want to do! - Saint Paul (Romans 7:15) Once you're trained in BayesCraft, it may be tempting to tackle classic problems "from scratch" with your new Rationality Powers. But often, it's more effective to do a bit of scholarship first and at least start from the state of our scientific knowledge on the subject. Today, I want to tackle procrastination by summarizing what we know about it, and how to overcome it. Let me begin with three character vignettes... Eddie attended the sales seminar, read all the books, and repeated the self-affirmations in the mirror this morning. But he has yet to make his first sale. Rejection after rejection has demoralized him. He organizes his desk, surfs the internet, and puts off his cold calls until potential clients are leaving for the day. Three blocks away, Valerie stares at a blank document in Microsoft Word. Her essay assignment on municipal politics, due tomorrow, is mind-numbingly dull. She decides she needs a break, texts some friends, watches a show, and finds herself even less motivated to write the paper than before. At 10pm she dives in, but the result reflects the time she put into it: it's terrible. In the next apartment down, Tom is ahead of the game. He got his visa, bought his plane tickets, and booked time off for his vacation to the Dominican Republic. He still needs to reserve a hotel room, but that can be done anytime. Tom keeps pushing the task forward a week as he has more urgent things to do, and then forgets about it altogether. As he's packing, he remembers to book the room, but by now there are none left by the beach. When he arrives, he finds his room is 10 blocks from the beach and decorated with dead mosquitos. Eddie, Valerie, and Tom are all procrastinators, but in different ways.1 Eddie's problem is low expectancy. By now, he expects only failure. Eddie has low expectancy of success from making his next round of cold calls. Results from 39 procrastination studies show that low expectancy is a major cause of procrastination.2 You doubt your ability to follow through with the diet. You don't expect to get the job. You really should be going out and meeting girls and learning to flirt better, but you expect only rejection now, so you procrastinate. You have learned to be helpless. Valerie's problem is that her task has low value for her. We all put off what we dislike.3 It's easy to meet up with your friends for drinks or start playing a videogame; not so easy to start doing your taxes. This point may be obvious, but it's nice to see it confirmed in over a dozen scientific studies. We put off things we don't like to do. But the strongest predictor of procrastination is Tom's problem: impulsiveness. It would have been easy for Tom to book the hotel in advance, but he kept getting distracted by more urgent or interesting things, and didn't remember to book the hotel until the last minute, which left him with a poor selection of rooms. Dozens of studies have shown that procrastination is closely tied to impulsiveness.4 Impulsiveness fits into a broader component of procrastination: time. An event's impact on our decisions decreases as its temporal distance from us increases.5 We are less motivated by delayed rewards than by immediate rewards, and the more impulsive you are, the more your motivation is affected by such delays. Expectancy, value, delay, and impulsiveness are the four major components of procrastination. Piers Steel, a leading researcher on procrastination, explains: Decrease the certainty or the size of a task's reward - its expectancy or its value - and you are unlik...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is The Science of Winning at Life, Part 3: My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination, published by lukeprog. Part of the sequence: The Science of Winning at Life After three months of practice, I now use a single algorithm to beat procrastination most of the times I face it.1 It probably won't work for you quite like it did for me, but it's the best advice on motivation I've got, and it's a major reason I'm known for having the "gets shit done" property. There are reasons to hope that we can eventually break the chain of akrasia; maybe this post is one baby step in the right direction. How to Beat Procrastination explained our best current general theory of procrastination, called "temporal motivation theory" (TMT). As an exercise in practical advice backed by deep theories, this post explains the process I use to beat procrastination — a process implied by TMT. As a reminder, here's a rough sketch of how motivation works according to TMT: Or, as Piers Steel summarizes: Decrease the certainty or the size of a task's reward — its expectancy or its value — and you are unlikely to pursue its completion with any vigor. Increase the delay for the task's reward and our susceptibility to delay — impulsiveness — and motivation also dips. Of course, my motivation system is more complex than that. P.J. Eby likens TMT (as a guide for beating procrastination) to the "fuel, air, ignition, and compression" plan for starting your car: it might be true, but a more useful theory would include details and mechanism. That's a fair criticism. Just as an fMRI captures the "big picture" of brain function at low resolution, TMT captures the big picture of motivation. This big picture helps us see where we need to work at the gears-and-circuits level, so we can become the goal-directed consequentialists we'd like to be. So, I'll share my four-step algorithm below, and tackle the gears-and-circuits level in later posts. Step 1: Notice I'm procrastinating. This part's easy. I know I should do the task, but I feel averse to doing it, or I just don't feel motivated enough to care. So I put it off, even though my prefrontal cortex keeps telling me I'll be better off if I do it now. When this happens, I proceed to step 2. Step 2: Guess which unattacked part of the equation is causing me the most trouble. Now I get to play detective. Which part of the equation is causing me trouble, here? Does the task have low value because it's boring or painful or too difficult, or because the reward isn't that great? Do I doubt that completing the task will pay off? Would I have to wait a long time for my reward if I succeeded? Am I particularly impatient or impulsive, either now or in general? Which part of this problem do I need to attack? Actually, I lied. I like to play army sniper. I stare down my telescopic sight at the terms in the equation and interrogate them. "Is it you, Delay? Huh, motherfucker? Is it you? I've shot you before; don't think I won't do it again!" But not everyone was raised on violent videogames. You may prefer a different role-play. Anyway, I try to figure out where the main problem is. Here are some of the signs I look for: When I imagine myself doing the task, do I see myself bored and distracted instead of engaged and interested? Is the task uncomfortable, onerous, or painful? Am I nervous about the task, or afraid of what might happen if I undertake it? Has the task's payoff lost its value to me? Perhaps it never had much value to me in the first place? If my answer to any of these questions is "Yes," I'm probably facing the motivation problem of low value. Do I think I'm likely to succeed at the task? Do I think it's within my capabilities? Do I think I'll actually get the reward if I do succeed? If my answer to any of these questions is "No," I'm probably facing the problem of low e...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How to Beat Procrastination, published by lukeprogon the Lesswrong. Part of the sequence: The Science of Winning at Life My own behavior baffles me. I find myself doing what I hate, and not doing what I really want to do! - Saint Paul (Romans 7:15) Once you're trained in BayesCraft, it may be tempting to tackle classic problems "from scratch" with your new Rationality Powers. But often, it's more effective to do a bit of scholarship first and at least start from the state of our scientific knowledge on the subject. Today, I want to tackle procrastination by summarizing what we know about it, and how to overcome it. Let me begin with three character vignettes... Eddie attended the sales seminar, read all the books, and repeated the self-affirmations in the mirror this morning. But he has yet to make his first sale. Rejection after rejection has demoralized him. He organizes his desk, surfs the internet, and puts off his cold calls until potential clients are leaving for the day. Three blocks away, Valerie stares at a blank document in Microsoft Word. Her essay assignment on municipal politics, due tomorrow, is mind-numbingly dull. She decides she needs a break, texts some friends, watches a show, and finds herself even less motivated to write the paper than before. At 10pm she dives in, but the result reflects the time she put into it: it's terrible. In the next apartment down, Tom is ahead of the game. He got his visa, bought his plane tickets, and booked time off for his vacation to the Dominican Republic. He still needs to reserve a hotel room, but that can be done anytime. Tom keeps pushing the task forward a week as he has more urgent things to do, and then forgets about it altogether. As he's packing, he remembers to book the room, but by now there are none left by the beach. When he arrives, he finds his room is 10 blocks from the beach and decorated with dead mosquitos. Eddie, Valerie, and Tom are all procrastinators, but in different ways.1 Eddie's problem is low expectancy. By now, he expects only failure. Eddie has low expectancy of success from making his next round of cold calls. Results from 39 procrastination studies show that low expectancy is a major cause of procrastination.2 You doubt your ability to follow through with the diet. You don't expect to get the job. You really should be going out and meeting girls and learning to flirt better, but you expect only rejection now, so you procrastinate. You have learned to be helpless. Valerie's problem is that her task has low value for her. We all put off what we dislike.3 It's easy to meet up with your friends for drinks or start playing a videogame; not so easy to start doing your taxes. This point may be obvious, but it's nice to see it confirmed in over a dozen scientific studies. We put off things we don't like to do. But the strongest predictor of procrastination is Tom's problem: impulsiveness. It would have been easy for Tom to book the hotel in advance, but he kept getting distracted by more urgent or interesting things, and didn't remember to book the hotel until the last minute, which left him with a poor selection of rooms. Dozens of studies have shown that procrastination is closely tied to impulsiveness.4 Impulsiveness fits into a broader component of procrastination: time. An event's impact on our decisions decreases as its temporal distance from us increases.5 We are less motivated by delayed rewards than by immediate rewards, and the more impulsive you are, the more your motivation is affected by such delays. Expectancy, value, delay, and impulsiveness are the four major components of procrastination. Piers Steel, a leading researcher on procrastination, explains: Decrease the certainty or the size of a task's reward - its expectancy or its value - and you are unlikely to pursue its compl...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination, published by lukeprog on the AI Alignment Forum. Part of the sequence: The Science of Winning at Life After three months of practice, I now use a single algorithm to beat procrastination most of the times I face it.1 It probably won't work for you quite like it did for me, but it's the best advice on motivation I've got, and it's a major reason I'm known for having the "gets shit done" property. There are reasons to hope that we can eventually break the chain of akrasia; maybe this post is one baby step in the right direction. How to Beat Procrastination explained our best current general theory of procrastination, called "temporal motivation theory" (TMT). As an exercise in practical advice backed by deep theories, this post explains the process I use to beat procrastination — a process implied by TMT. As a reminder, here's a rough sketch of how motivation works according to TMT: Or, as Piers Steel summarizes: Decrease the certainty or the size of a task's reward — its expectancy or its value — and you are unlikely to pursue its completion with any vigor. Increase the delay for the task's reward and our susceptibility to delay — impulsiveness — and motivation also dips. Of course, my motivation system is more complex than that. P.J. Eby likens TMT (as a guide for beating procrastination) to the "fuel, air, ignition, and compression" plan for starting your car: it might be true, but a more useful theory would include details and mechanism. That's a fair criticism. Just as an fMRI captures the "big picture" of brain function at low resolution, TMT captures the big picture of motivation. This big picture helps us see where we need to work at the gears-and-circuits level, so we can become the goal-directed consequentialists we'd like to be. So, I'll share my four-step algorithm below, and tackle the gears-and-circuits level in later posts. Step 1: Notice I'm procrastinating. This part's easy. I know I should do the task, but I feel averse to doing it, or I just don't feel motivated enough to care. So I put it off, even though my prefrontal cortex keeps telling me I'll be better off if I do it now. When this happens, I proceed to step 2. Step 2: Guess which unattacked part of the equation is causing me the most trouble. Now I get to play detective. Which part of the equation is causing me trouble, here? Does the task have low value because it's boring or painful or too difficult, or because the reward isn't that great? Do I doubt that completing the task will pay off? Would I have to wait a long time for my reward if I succeeded? Am I particularly impatient or impulsive, either now or in general? Which part of this problem do I need to attack? Actually, I lied. I like to play army sniper. I stare down my telescopic sight at the terms in the equation and interrogate them. "Is it you, Delay? Huh, motherfucker? Is it you? I've shot you before; don't think I won't do it again!" But not everyone was raised on violent videogames. You may prefer a different role-play. Anyway, I try to figure out where the main problem is. Here are some of the signs I look for: When I imagine myself doing the task, do I see myself bored and distracted instead of engaged and interested? Is the task uncomfortable, onerous, or painful? Am I nervous about the task, or afraid of what might happen if I undertake it? Has the task's payoff lost its value to me? Perhaps it never had much value to me in the first place? If my answer to any of these questions is "Yes," I'm probably facing the motivation problem of low value. Do I think I'm likely to succeed at the task? Do I think it's within my capabilities? Do I think I'll actually get the reward if I do succeed? If my answer to any of these questions is "No," I'm probably facing the problem of low expectancy. Ho...

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Today on Evolved Radio I joined again by Piers Steel. Piers is a Professor at the University of Calgary. He has an interesting field of study, procrastination. I had Piers on the podcast a couple of years back in episode 41. We explored the psychological roots of procrastination. Today Piers and I hit on something that I'm sure you have felt in the past year, Quarantine Procrastination. We also chat about some systems to help you and of course, end up talking about productivity since we're both a bit obsessed with the topic. Enjoy the discussion and I hope you find it interesting and helpful.

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It's a common belief that perfectionism is one of the main causes of procrastination. Does having high standards make it harder to start?  Many of my colleagues in the legal profession, for example, have perfectionist tendencies. Procrastination can get lawyers into trouble. It creates high stress and anxiety, and often leads to subpar work and serious errors. But as it turns out, there's no strong link between perfectionism and procrastination, says Dr. Piers Steel. He's a professor and leading researcher on the science of motivation and procrastination. He's the author of the book, The Procrastination Equation.Dr. Steel has a mathematical formula that accounts for motivation and procrastination. It is [Expectancy (E) x Value (V)] divided by [Impulsiveness (I) x Delay (D)] = MotivationThe formula is based on 30 years of research and hundreds of studies. To have more motivation, and less procrastination, you want the numerators (E and V) to be high and the denominators (I & D) to be low. In this episode, I describe 4 ways to stop procrastinating and just start: (1) create success spirals; (2) practice mental contrasting; (3) get super-focused; and (4) set clear goals. Success spirals increase expectancy, mental contrasting raises value, super-focus reduces impulsiveness, and clear goals minimize delay. I review Dr. Gabriele Oettingen's WOOP method for incorporating If-Then statements into your plan for overcoming obstacles. WOOP stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan. I also explain Dr. Tim Pychyl's theory that procrastination is an emotion management problem, not a time management issue. We procrastinate because we're thinking about all the things that might happen rather than just starting what we have to do. Procrastination is a coping strategy to deal with negative emotions like frustration and anxiety. It is based on assumptions that the task won't feel good. When we procrastinate, we have less time to complete the project.  We sometimes tell ourselves we work better under pressure. But we just make more errors when we wait until the deadline is tomorrow. Whatever you have to do, just start now. Resources Cited:  Pierce Steel, The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done Gabriele Oettingen, Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation  Timothy A Pychyl, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change Music by:Sebastian Brian MehrCheers,Dyan WilliamsCheck out the book: The Incrementalist, A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small StepsVisit website: www.dyanwilliams.comSubscribe to productivity e-newsletter

Finally, we come to a set of instructions from Piers Steel, dubbed the procrastination equation. He states that motivation = (expectancy + value) / (impulsiveness + delay). First of all, are you even considering each of these four factors when it comes to trying to take action? Are you aware of what's involved? Next, manipulate these motivating factors into a quantity or order that makes the most sense for you. You'll quickly find what helps your sense of self-discipline, a term that, like “laziness,” has several layers to it. Practical Self-Discipline: Become a Relentless Goal-Achieving and Temptation-Busting Machine (A Guide for Procrastinators, Slackers, and Couch Potatoes) By Peter Hollins Get the audiobook on Audible at https://bit.ly/practicalselfdiscipline Show notes and/or episode transcripts are available at https://bit.ly/self-growth-home Peter Hollins is a bestselling author, human psychology researcher, and a dedicated student of the human condition. Visit https://bit.ly/peterhollins to pick up your FREE human nature cheat sheet: 7 surprising psychology studies that will change the way you think. For narration information visit Russell Newton at https://bit.ly/VoW-home For production information visit Newton Media Group LLC at https://bit.ly/newtonmg #PeterHollins #TheArtandScienceofSelf-Growth #PiersSteel #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeacticalSelfDiscipline #AFormulaforDoing Peter Hollins,The Art and Science of Self-Growth,Piers Steel,Russell Newton,NewtonMG,Peactical Self Discipline,A Formula for Doing,

Hi there! It's been a while since last Friday since we published a new episode or whenever you are listening to this episode. This episode discusses why we procrastinate in the first place, the mindset, and the psychology behind it. If you have clicked to listen to this episode, then congratulations, you have made the first step towards stopping to procrastinate, but if you are someone who put it for later, then I challenge you to listen to this episode all the way through and start doing something which you have been putting off or not, your life, but we care about you, so let's go through this together. Procrastinating is something that we know we shouldn't be doing, but we do it anyway. So why is it that we procrastinate in the first place? This age-old question is more asked than what is the meaning of life? according to the Bullshit stats of Authentic Chaos (lol), but Dr. Piers Steel who studies motivational psychology at the University of Calgary, Canada says that "It's self-harm" Let us know how you like this episode or if you found it helpful on our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authenticchaos90/?hl=en Or just come hang out with us over there, it is a fun time over there. Leave us a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/authentic-chaos/id1506686377 Until the next episode cuties!

Ep 135 Piers Steel - The science behind procrastination by Scott H Young

Faith, Mindset, and healthy goals for Entrepreneurs.Mindset matters. If you're a Kingdom entrepreneur or operate a Christian business, then how you think about your business is critically important. Your beliefs, your faith in God and self, and the way you set goals, all determine whether you will be able to have a successful company. Many entrepreneurs stop at just a good ideal, and because they don't have the right perspective, they don't gain momentum. In today's episode (0008) of the Eternal Entrepreneur, we speak with Mark Fenner about mindset and belief. Mark is President of Rise Performance Group. For more than 30 years, Mark has been inspiring CEOs, owners and their leadership teams to think bigger, act bolder and make an even greater impact on their company, its employees and their communities. Show Notes: Main discussion points How to identify and deal with limiting beliefs  Knowing what your worth is (know your value)  Building momentum in your business Experience/Exchange/Everywhere Culture and how to use it to scale Episode Topics This episode covers the topics of beliefs, sales, Christian business, entrepreneurship, marketplace ministry, faith and work, business as mission, confidence and money. Resources MentionedTo learn more about Mark and Scaling Up visit http://www.scalingupdfw.com (www.scalingupdfw.com)   https://www.amazon.com/Calling-Awaken-Purpose-Your-Work/dp/0830780734/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2J1JOZDJBAKG8&dchild=1&keywords=pierce+brantley&qid=1595612612&sprefix=pierce+brant%2Caps%2C363&sr=8-1 (Calling: Awaken to the Purpose of Your Work) – by Pierce Brantleyhttps://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Up-Companies-Rockefeller-Habits/dp/0986019526 (Scaling Up) – by https://www.amazon.com/Verne-Harnish/e/B001K8G21C?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000 (Verne Harnish)https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996 (Good to Great) – by James C. Collinshttps://www.amazon.com/Who-Geoff-Smart/dp/0345504194 (Who: The A Method for Hiring) – by https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS796US796&sxsrf=ALeKk02BmisUVMkrk-5u0jWX_H2jDQ7W2g:1601914576246&q=Geoff+Smart&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LSz9U3MK0sN80yUQKzzUzjczLKtWSyk630k_Lzs_XLizJLSlLz4svzi7KtEktLMvKLFrFyu6fmp6UpBOcmFpXsYGUEADAo0d5JAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY6pvq7J3sAhUKR6wKHSPjCekQmxMoATAkegQIDRAD (Geoff Smart), https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS796US796&sxsrf=ALeKk02BmisUVMkrk-5u0jWX_H2jDQ7W2g:1601914576246&q=Randy+Street&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LSz9U3MK0sN80yUUKwk7RkspOt9JPy87P1y4syS0pS8-LL84uyrRJLSzLyixax8gQl5qVUKgSXFKWmluxgZQQAxF6rpkoAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY6pvq7J3sAhUKR6wKHSPjCekQmxMoAjAkegQIDRAE (Randy Street) https://www.amazon.com/Procrastination-Equation-Putting-Things-Getting/dp/0061703621/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= (The Procrastination Equation) – by https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS796US796&sxsrf=ALeKk03bvW43oxm1zMYQ_bDw5gKW7e1bxw:1601914593086&q=Piers+Steel&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LRT9c3NDLJSi-wKMxVAvMMUyqzywwrkrRkspOt9JPy87P1y4syS0pS8-LL84uyrRJLSzLyixaxcgdkphYVKwSXpKbm7GBlBAAoIleETQAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqyZ_y7J3sAhVSKa0KHUxeB8MQmxMoATAqegQIHBAD (Piers Steel) To learn more about the Eternal Entrepreneur and get weekly updates then go to http://www.piercebrantley.co/podcast (www.PierceBrantley.co/podcast)  Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/The-Eternal-Entrepreneur-104455511332701 (www.facebook.com/The-Eternal-Entrepreneur-104455511332701)

Piers Steel, one of the world's leading researchers on the science of procrastination, explains how to think about procrastination, what really causes it, and the changes we can make to do it a little less.

Varför bör vi sätta och sträva mot mål? En djupdykning i motivationsforskningen (bla Edward Deci) för att se hur vi kan bli mer autonomt motiverade. En ekvation från Piers Steel som ger svaret på varför vi ibland prokrastinerar och vad vi kan göra för att öka motivationen i stunden. Optimera dina mål med min modell LAVA som ger dig svaret på om målen du strävar mot verkligen är optimala för dig.  Hur ser vi till att sätta mål så att vi får motivationen på köpet?Frågor för reflektion:Hur kan du lägga mer av din tid på aktiviteter du älskar? (LOVE)Är dina mål dina och ligger måluppfyllelsen inom din kontroll? (AUTONOMY)Vilka värderingar ligger i linje med ditt mål, vad är du beredd att offra och kan du hitta något högre syfte med målet du jobbar mot? (VALUES)Hur ser du till att göra dina mål mer utmanande så att du måste utvecklas för att fixa dem? (AMBITION)Om du gillar avsnittet vore jag jättetacksam om du vill prenumerera OCH ge ett omdöme på iTunes. Det hjälper till att sprida podden till fler. Jag har medvetet tagit beslutet att inte sälja din uppmärksamhet och tid till annonsörer för att hålla podden reklamfri, så istället vore jag superglad om du vill tipsa två av dina vänner om podden. När vi tillsammans strävar mot vår fulla potential kommer världen bli en lite bättre plats! Om du har frågor som du vill att jag tar upp eller vill ha hjälp att nå nästa nivå når du mig, Christian Malmström på christian@ironcoach.se eller via ironcoach.se eller lavaleadership.com.

Depending on the research, there are anywhere from 40% - 60% percent of us admitting we make New Year's resolutions, A study from the University of Scranton found that 23% of people quit their resolution after one week. And only 19% of individuals actually stick to the goals longer term. We put off starting a project we planned, or once started, we never finish.  We swear to eat healthily, lose weight, or you name it, only to see ourselves defeated by what seems to be a lack of will.  If we really want to do these things, why don't we do them?  My guest on the show is Dr. Piers Steel. Piers is a Distinguished Research Chair at the University of Calgary, where he teaches human resources and organizational dynamics at the Haskayne School of Business.  Piers is one of the world's leading researchers on the science of motivation and procrastination.  He's also the inventor of the procrastination equation – an equation that can explain every scientific finding on procrastination ever and is laid out in his oft-cited book The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done. You're about to find out not only why you procrastinate, but the science around what works to overcome it, i.e., how to increase motivation.     When you learn the equation, you can use it to diagnose where your lack of motivation might be coming from. And from there, you can increase your motivation on-command. Piers lays it out for us. On this show, some of the topics we cover include … Long-held myths on why people procrastinate  The truth about why we procrastinate  He breaks down each part of the motivation equation and talks through how to work with them The power of context The real problem with impulsiveness and some tricks to thwart temptation Sort ranking the motivation variables by impact THE #1 Reason people procrastinate  What elevates motivation and what depresses it The problem with smart goals Enjoy!  For resources, show notes and more visit larryweeks.com

Welcome to this encore presentation of Why Procrastination Isn't About Self-Control & Time Management. What if I told you procrastination wasn't about self-control? Before you beat yourself up about your self-control or buy another time management app, learn why you procrastinate. Episodes we mention #55: Creating Marketing Systems to Scale Your Business with Kronda Adair #35: Vulnerability and Imposter Syndrome with Allison Kinnear Procrastination articles referenced Procrastination: A Scientific Guide on How to Stop Procrastinating Procrastination Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control) The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Things Done by Piers Steel, Ph.D. (Kindle; Audible; Hardcover; Paperback)

Qual è il costo della procrastinazione? Dopo aver costruito la tua Visione e aver iniziato a visualizzare per muoverti concretamente verso i tuoi obiettivi, si passa alla fase dell’azione. Uno dei più grandi ostacoli per passare dalla Visione all’Azione è la procrastinazione, come insegna Piers Steel, uno dei più acclamati studiosi sul tema. [Maggiori info: SaraFrancescaLisot.it]

Quantas vezes você deixou algo importante, mas não urgente para depois? Algumas vezes conseguimos contornar a situação a tempo, mas em outras nós fabricamos urgências, perdemos oportunidades, ou ainda, geramos perdas irreversíveis. No excelente livro A equação de deixar para depois, Piers Steel traz uma excelente definição da procrastinação: o atraso intencional irracional, quando sabemos que nossa situação só vai piorar com esta decisão, mas mesmo assim o fazemos. Aqui eu trago uma síntese com as principais recomendações para enfrentar a procrastinação.

It's Friday afternoon and the clock is ticking. You're working furiously to complete a task before the five o'clock deadline, while silently cursing yourself for not starting it sooner. Procrastination can also go beyond work, affecting other important parts of our lives. Not getting that irritating symptom checked out leaves an unknown disease untreated. Procrastination is a trap that many of us fall into. In fact, according to researcher and speaker Piers Steel, 95 percent of us procrastinate to some degree. “You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.” Some questions we ask: Are you an active or proactive procrastinator? (2:00) Why are you procrastinating? (4:00) Do you have an accountability friend/coach that keeps you accountable? (5:00) Do you break down overwhelming projects into manageable chunks? (5:00) When do you motivate and reward yourself after a personal victory? (7:00) How do you make your daily chores fun and enjoyable? (8:00) Do you take advantage of Airplane mode on your phone to help you concentrate? (11:00) In this episode, we dissect the psychology of procrastination and provide valuable tips that will change your attitude from “I choose to do” to “I have to do’. Avoiding a difficult conversation only prolongs the conflict. And delaying an important life decision, like breaking up, making a serious commitment, going back to school, or finally changing career paths, can lead to running in place for years. In the end, we kick ourselves as we wile away hours on distractions (social media and TV - to name a few) as escape routes instead the tasks at hand. We regret the time wasted as deadlines approach, time runs out, and opportunity slips through our fingers. Don’t let this be you!

Today on the podcast I'm talking to Piers Steel, Professor at the University of Calgary and author of The Procrastination Equation. Piers has spent years researching the reasons for and impacts of procrastination. Today we chat about the reasons why you fail to follow through despite your best intentions. It's a surprisingly complex topic. A fascinating mixed conversation on self-help, psychology, biology, and productivity. I'm sure you'll find the conversation as fascinating as I did. Enjoy.

The Premiere episode! Hannah and Ben interview Piers Steel, author of The Procrastination Equation, and Laura Winters, creator of the Artist's Susu. Hannah wrestles with creating a contact sheet she's been working on for... 2 years?

Piers Steel is one of the world's leading thinkers on the science of motivation and procrastination. His book, The Procrastination Equation lays out a toolkit for "how to stop putting things off and start getting stuff done".

Procrastination can be a big stumbling block to our success in life. If you’re a student and you put off studying to the last minute, you might not do as well on a test. If you wait to start saving for retirement until you’re in your 40s, you lose out on the power of compound interest. We know that we need to do certain things sooner, rather than later, but we don’t. Why? My guest today is Dr. Piers Steel, and in his work and his book, The Procrastination Equation, he's distilled all the research out there on procrastination into a kind of formula that explains why we put things off. Piers explains why his approach to procrastination is different from that taken by many psychologists, and what they often get wrong about its root causes. He then digs into the different components of why we procrastinate, as well as actionable advice on how you can mitigate these issues and start getting more stuff done. Get the show notes at aom.is/procrastinationequation.

Total Duration 38:05 Download episode 184 Overwhelm Does Not Have to Be Normal I'm regularly challenged by the Henry Cloud quote that "You get what you tolerate." Too often we tolerate overwhelm as normal. My guest in this episode is out to help you fix that. Steve Kahle is founder of Gray Wolf Workflow and he is on a mission to help you and your team get more done with less stress. Click here to learn more about Steve's Proactive Lane Boot Camp. You can participate anywhere in the world and I personally guarantee you will find it worth your investment. Also, check out: Steve's series of short videos at http://OneMinuteProductivity.com His free Workday Planning Guide at http://www.workdayplanningguide.com/  Additional Episodes If you would like more insights on managing your time more effectively, check out these episodes: Cal Newport regarding his book Deep Work: https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/144.  Elizabeth Grace Saunders regarding her book How to Invest Your Time Like Money: https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/137.  Kory Kogon regarding her book The Five Choices: https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/129.  Bob Pozen regarding his book Extreme Productivity: https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/83.  Peter Bregman regarding his book 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done: https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/64.  Piers Steel regarding his book The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done: https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/123.  Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! OUT OF TIME by Samuell, John Marcus, & Vicky D. available on Amazon at http://amzn.to/2vrbP7I TECH LIVE by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License.

At the time of saying this I'm 90% done with book about starting and productivity. It's a working title at the moment and I wish to share what I'm learning from it. Every time I open my One Step Journal, It's a reminder of all the projects I still haven't started yet. It's the passion projects that I don't have time for. I don't even know if I will ever have time for them. It reminds me of that time I read about a nurse who took care of people in their final days. The most said regret they said to her was not going after their dreams as the highest priority. When people know their time is limited they are now able to look back on things with more hindsight. Most didn't even achieve half what they wanted and were force to go knowing they won't ever happen. The nurse says, “Every day we choose how we spend the amount of hours we're given. Most often just comes down to procrastination and fear of just starting.” Apparently 95% of the American population all deal with procrastination even myself. While time management can go only so far, it's the why we fail to start in psychological and emotional reasons. *Do Something Your Future Self Will Thank You For* Procrastination is more than just putting off something to a later date. It's knowing there will be negative consequences in the future due to the procrastination. We're not just being careless. It's purposely sabotaging your future with a short term pleasure rather than a long term benefiting one. So much studies say that procrastination leads to so many mental problems such as anxiety, depression, and outlook on life. Dr. Piers Steel, an organizational behavior professor at the University of Calgary, has created a formula that allows one to know when you're procrastinating. Motivation is the drive for action that all requires for the will of action. It's what economists call utility. At the vert top of the formula, anticipation is the odds of all outcome coming from choices. While value refers to how the reward will be spent. Underneath, impulsiveness is your sensitivity to delays (how easily you get distracted) and delay is how long you have to wait to receive the reward. So with all the choices coming down to expectation of a positive outcome vs how long it will actually take. Sounds easy, right? We weigh the value for the amount of given effort that's going to be used. But what happens when our view of the value isn't exact? Dr. Fuschia Sirois, a psychology professor at the University of Sheffield, England, has called this “temporal myopia,” or the inability to see into your future. There's different ways we see the future - It can be through planning and plotting goals, or positive affirmations. With procrastination, it becomes blurry. It then becomes more undefined and impersonal. There is a lack of personal and emotional connection with who they are and who they will be. Another problem is time inconsistency is which said from behavioral economists. It's the brain's reason of valuing immediate rewards than those that are in the future. Add it all up and it's no wonder poor decisions are made with not a whole lot of rewards. Motivation in tasks start when we see value in it. Yet we place the value on what is currently happening of the present rather than justifying who and where we will be in the future. This why you go to bed wishing for change and then waking up with the exact same problem. *Learning to Diet in a Candy Store* The world we live in actually against this ideology and only furthers the problems we have. In Dr. Steel's research he equates our day-to-day lives as trying to diet in a candy store and then being blamed for getting fat. We're being herded towards a place of consumption over and over. And consumption trumps creation. Every day products are compelled to how you used them. Products are now being made in impulsive consideration with surprise deals. They are designed to make you want to use them every day. It has now been a survival of how you use things such as your phone or internet. *Present you: 1. Future you: 0.* The ancient philosophers Socrates and Aristotle invented the word: Akrasia. Which is the weak willed unable to see the long benefits of their labor. This is shown in binge watching tv or reading a book. We essentially are delaying gratification is a big reason for any kind of failure. Success takes work. Sometimes there's no promise of a reward. Yet the world wants us to have an reward even if we didn't deserve it. Look forward to my book as I expand on this and cover a lot more topics in a couple of weeks.

According to today’s guest the average person procrastinates for two hours a day which is one quarter of our working day. This is equivalent to starting work in April each year. Listen to this week’s podcast to learn how to overcome procrastination so you can sell more. After reading The Procrastination Equation before christmas I saved hours a […] The post How to overcome procrastination: interview with world leading expert Piers Steel appeared first on mindful sales.

Did you know there’s an equation for Procrastination? Yep. Expectancy x Value / Impulsiveness x Delay = Motivation. Thank you, Piers Steel. In this great book, Piers (a leading researcher on the science of motivation/procrastination) walks us thru the power of that equation. Big Ideas we explore include: Mental Contrasting (and why it beats creative visualization), goal setting (3 scientific keys) and how to add a month of productivity to your year.

Did you know there’s an equation for Procrastination? Yep. Expectancy x Value / Impulsiveness x Delay = Motivation. Thank you, Piers Steel. In this great book, Piers (a leading researcher on the science of motivation/procrastination) walks us thru the power of that equation. Big Ideas we explore include: Mental Contrasting (and why it beats creative visualization), goal setting (3 scientific keys) and how to add a month of productivity to your year.

Did you know there’s an equation for Procrastination? Yep. Expectancy x Value / Impulsiveness x Delay = Motivation. Thank you, Piers Steel. In this great book, Piers (a leading researcher on the science of motivation/procrastination) walks us thru the power of that equation. Big Ideas we explore include: Mental Contrasting (and why it beats creative visualization), goal setting (3 scientific keys) and how to add a month of productivity to your year.

Did you know there’s an equation for Procrastination? Yep. Expectancy x Value / Impulsiveness x Delay = Motivation. Thank you, Piers Steel. In this great book, Piers (a leading researcher on the science of motivation/procrastination) walks us thru the power of that equation. Big Ideas we explore include: Mental Contrasting (and why it beats creative visualization), goal setting (3 scientific keys) and how to add a month of productivity to your year.

  Total Duration 48:05 Download episode 123 Stop Procrastinating! I have so looked forward to sharing this episode with you! It's just that.... I kept finding other things to do! But the wait is over! My guest today is Piers Steel, author of The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done. Learn more about Piers by checking out his blog at http://procrastinus.com/. Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Have a great week! SOME OTHER TIME by Tony Bennett and Bill Evans PUT IT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW by The Kendalls DEAD by They Might Be Giants

Dr. PIERS STEEL, recognized as the world's leading authority on procrastination, taught at both the business and psychology schools of the University of Minnesota and is Associate Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He has received international recognition for his groundbreaking research on procrastination, combined with organization behaviour, personality and individual differences, with widespread media coverage of his work in the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, USA Today and Scientific American. Piers Steel's authority and his renown as a public speaker on the subject of why we procrastinate and how we can benefit if we overcome the habit, combined with his wit and humour, offer a perfect platform for the general reader to understand procrastination.Join us today .. don't put it off any longer!!

Dr. PIERS STEEL, recognized as the world's leading authority on procrastination, taught at both the business and psychology schools of the University of Minnesota and is Associate Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He has received international recognition for his groundbreaking research on procrastination, combined with organization behaviour, personality and individual differences, with widespread media coverage of his work in the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, USA Today and Scientific American. Piers Steel's authority and his renown as a public speaker on the subject of why we procrastinate and how we can benefit if we overcome the habit, combined with his wit and humour, offer a perfect platform for the general reader to understand procrastination.Join us today .. don't put it off any longer!!