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You're not a procrastinator,

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you have a habit

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of procrastinating,

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big difference.

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Because if it's a habit,

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I can teach you to use science to break it. (MUSIC)

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So,

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let's talk a little bit about procrastination.

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Who in here struggles with procrastination?

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Yeah,

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and the rest of you that aren't raising

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your hand are just procrastinating on doing it,

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aren't you?

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I know.

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You see,

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I always thought procrastination had to do

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with the thing I was procrastinating around,

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right?

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Like that procrastination has something to do with work.

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Believe it or not,

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procrastination has nothing to do with your work.

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Procrastination

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is a form of stress relief.

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Let me explain this.

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So, let's say that you've got some stuff going on in your life,

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and heck,

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who doesn't have stuff going on in your life?

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Maybe you're fighting with your significant other,

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maybe mom's or dad's health is failing and it's really,

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really upsetting you.

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Maybe you've got some financial stuff, you put too much

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of your savings into Bitcoin and now that that's crashed,

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you're stressed out about it,

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right?

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And so, you go into work and when you get into work, you got stuff to do, you kind of walk

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in and you got this big stress ball that

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subconsciously is hanging over your head. And so, you walk in

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and you sit down and you know you got 13 phone calls you

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need to make and you also know that you've been chickening out.

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You've been making easy

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calls and there's a bunch of CIOs or other

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people that are higher level that you haven't been calling.

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And so, as you sit down to do it, you got the stress on your shoulders,

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your brain that it starts to go, "Wait a minute, you want

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me to make a call to somebody that I'm scared to make?"

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Absolutely not!

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I'm so stressed out about, can we just watch some cat videos for a minute?

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And next thing you know an hour's gone by, and then of course what do

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you do? You beat yourself up. So, the only way that you can break this habit

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and that's an important word for you to hear

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you're not a procrastinator,

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you have a habit

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of procrastinating,

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big difference.

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Because if it's a habit,

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I can teach you to use science to break it.

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You see,

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all habits have three parts.

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There's a trigger

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and in the case of procrastination,

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the trigger is always stress.

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Then there's a pattern you repeat and in the case of procrastination, it is to avoid

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doing something,

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and then there's a reward.

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You get a little stress relief.

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The only way

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to break a habit,

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you guys,

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is not to deal with the triggers.

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You're never gonna get rid of the stress in your life,

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but you can 100% change your pattern of avoiding work.

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So, next time that you're in a situation where you feel yourself hesitate,

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you spent way too much time checking out the highlights from last night's scores,

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what you're gonna do is you're gonna go,

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"Oh,

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I must be stressed out about something."

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Acknowledge the stress,

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then go 5-4-3-2-1.

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I want you to count to yourself because I want you to interrupt the

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habit that's stored here and I want you to awaken your prefrontal cortex.

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Then I want you to just work just for 5 minutes.

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The reason why I want you to only work

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for 5 minutes is because your problem isn't working.

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It's the habit of avoiding.

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I just need you to start. And here's the other cool thing,

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we know based on research that if we can get you to start,

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80% of you are going to keep going. (MUSIC)