Overcoming Procrastination with a Three-Step Formula

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Learn a simple three-step process to combat procrastination without dwell on the 'why', focusing on small tasks in the present moment and taking consistent action. The speaker promotes their book 'The Science of Stuck' for deeper insights and directs listeners to find more resources on their Instagram, website and podcast episodes.

In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you very much intend to do and what you tend to do instead. It turns out, there's a well-researched psychological framework that includes a term for when you have a stated, known goal – a change you'd like to make in your life – something you wake up intending to finally do or get started doing, but then don't do while knowing full well you are actively not doing what you ought and wish you had done by now. After we discuss this phenomenon and how to deal with it, we get into procrastination and how to escape all manner of dead-end behavioral loops.

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