1055: The One-Minute Trick to Defeating Procrastination with Dave Crenshaw

Procrastination is driven largely by the emotion that we feel. When I start doing the work, what's the emotion that I feel? Usually I feel pretty good once I'm in the motion of doing it, and then when I accomplish the goal, How do I feel? I feel really good when I did that.

Where is emotion not good? Where does the emotion feel the worst? Just before we start the work, right? So we have to trick our brain to jump over that emotion, to just ignore it and start the process. And that's what the first minute does.

Everything starts to become just a little more meaningful and we start to feel more connected when we choose. not to multitask where we're trying to do two attention requiring tasks at the same time. Things take longer, we make more mistakes, we increase our stress, and we damage relationships. And, you know, I've always talked about it in terms of those four things, but having this conversation, Pete, I think there's a fifth cost. And the fifth cost is the impact

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