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5 Min Pocket Pep Talk: Listen When You Procrastinate · The Nadia Chapman Show

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  Hey there, welcome to the 5-Minute Pocket Pep Talk, and I'm glad you're here
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  because apparently you've been putting things off.
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  If you're here, there's probably something on your mind right now,
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  something that you keep saying that you're going to do and you just haven't.
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  Not because you don't care, not because you're lazy or unmotivated,
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  but because every time it comes up, you kind of feel that little resistance
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  and you push it to tomorrow, to next week.
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  And then later comes, and it's still there. And now it's not just the thing
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  anymore. It's the weight of it.
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  That quiet pressure sitting in the back of your mind all day, every day.
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  So let's just slow down for a second together, because this is actually really simple.
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  Once you see it clearly, I'm going to help you through it right now.
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  Procrastination is not about time. It's about how something makes you feel.
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  There's something about that one task that you keep putting off.
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  Maybe it feels overwhelming.
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  Maybe you're not sure where to start, or maybe it's that part of you that's
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  saying, you know what, what if I don't do this well?
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  And instead of sitting in that discomfort, your brain does what it's designed
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  to do, which is, you guessed it.
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  It goes, oh, let's not deal with this right now. Let's do something easier,
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  something familiar, something that feels way better in this moment.
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  So you scroll, you clean, you avoid, you know, you check something else and
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  you basically avoid it altogether.
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  And in that moment, well, that works. You feel better. Okay.
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  And then later it comes back and now it's even heavier.
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  That's the part that trains you. I know it does. So instead of trying to fix
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  your motivation or waiting to feel ready because you might not feel like you're
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  ready, I want you to shift one thing.
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  Stop asking yourself, do I feel like doing this?
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  Start asking, am I willing to feel a little uncomfortable for a few minutes?
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  Am I willing to feel a little uncomfortable for a few minutes?
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  Because that's really what this comes down to.
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  Most of the time, it's not the task that is hard. It's starting while you feel uncomfortable.
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  And the second that you start, the second that you get moving,
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  even just a little, something shifts.
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  It's like your brain relaxes a bit, you know, that pressure drop.
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  And then you realize that, you know what?
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  It's not as big of a deal that you made it to be. And now you're moving.
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  So instead of thinking about the whole thing, just shrink it.
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  Make it almost too easy. I'm not even kidding.
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  Open the document, write one sentence, whatever it is that you're putting off,
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  open the document, make that phone call, take the leap, take the step,
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  a little, a little bit at a time.
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  That's it. because action creates clarity.
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  I cannot say that often enough. It doesn't work the other way around.
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  You don't get clear and then decide to take action.
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  Action creates your clarity. And every time that you follow through onto something,
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  especially when you don't feel like it, you build that trust inside of you.
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  And that trust that you're building, that's where confidence actually comes from.
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  Not from thinking about it more and sitting with your thoughts more and avoiding,
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  not from waiting for the perfect moment, but from doing the thing anyway.
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  So whatever you're putting off right now in your life, I want you to stop for a second.
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  Don't overthink it. Just take one small step right after this,
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  like literally after listening to this podcast, you've got a few seconds left,
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  not later, right after this. Okay.
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  Thank you for being here. Really, it means a lot to me.
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  And just remember that you don't need to feel ready to start.
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  You just need to start. You've got this. Now go do it.