Moment 177: You're NOT Lazy! This Is The REAL Reason You Procrastinate: The Performance Doctor

Uh I get a lot of messages from people saying, Um Steve, I'm procrastinating so much. How do you not procrastinate? And I always look at that and say, Look, I'm not the guy to tell you how to do that because procrastination in my mind is a bit of a tool. Um As you said, there's different types of procrastination that I notice myself doing. One of them is when

I get stuck on something. And I find myself picking up my phone as if I'm a man possessed. I literally what I'll do is I'll be in the middle of work. And then The next thing, I'm on Instagram. And I'm like, how did that happen? Oh yeah, because the part in this piece of work you can got to

Is Um psychologically difficult for some reason. I don't feel prepared or whatever. And then the other thing. I notice myself procrastinating on is just when I'm thinking through something, I'll end up just walking around the house, I'll end up cleaning, doing the dishes or whatever, and then coming back to the piece of work later. Um, but I I would say that I'm definitely a procrastinator. That's so interesting. And I think l let's be clear.

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