The Roots of Procrastination, Inattention and Anxiety, with Dr. Ellen Vora, M.D.
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How to Stop Procrastination
'I'm so glad you brought up shame, cause i think there is also something in how we're raised where some of us struggle with trusting in our inherent self worth,' she says. 'So that gets really wrapped up in our perfectionism, which itself ends up being a cause of a lot of procrastination.' She talks about the ancient hindoo philosophy called karma yoka - do your best for the sake of doing the right thing and remain unattached from the outcome. But it completely changes how it feels when we might have ordinarily called ourselves a failure when something doesn't go well,. Instead talk to ourselves much more gently and compassionately and say, you know it, i did
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