571: Why We Procrastinate (And How to Stop Procrastinating)

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 2022, a study published in Psychology Today found that 88% of people feel worse after procrastinating. Procrastination is undoubtedly one of the most common barriers to success—but what if you could break free from it starting today?

In this episode, I’m launching a brand-new series, Why We Do What We Do, where we’ll explore the psychological and emotional patterns that shape our actions. There’s no denying the fact that we get an immediate sense of relief when we procrastinate. But the downside is we sabotage ourselves and create additional stress in the process.

Today, I’m sharing five strategies to help you draw a line in the sand and make a conscious decision to stop doing the things that don’t move the needle in your life. You’ll walk away with practical tools to shift your mindset, take action, and finally break the habits that prevent you from clearing your to-do list and achieving your goals.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Procrastination isn’t about laziness—it’s about emotional avoidance
Short-term relief often creates long-term discomfort
Accountability accelerates progress by creating external motivation
Progress, not perfection, is the key to success
Taking small steps creates momentum which compounds and reduces overwhelm
The longer you put off and avoid something, the harder it gets
Five (5) proven strategies to stop procrastinating

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level,
0:16.5	as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals
0:21.8	themselves and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you
0:26.4	need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go. Hello and welcome to today's episode of the
0:33.4	Achieve Your Goals podcast. I'm your host Hal Elrod. And today's the first installment in a new
0:38.5	series that I'm calling Why We Do What We Do. I'll spread the series over the course of the next few
0:45.0	months because I'm going to have interviews with guests in between. But together, we're going to
0:48.8	deep into human behavior, breaking down the patterns, the beliefs, and the habits that shape our lives so that you
0:55.9	can take intentional steps to achieve your goals and become the person that you want to be.
1:01.0	Now, today we're tackling one of the most common barriers to success, and that is procrastination.
1:05.6	How often do you find yourself putting off the important things in life, whether it's
1:09.3	tackling a big project or making
1:11.5	an important decision or having a difficult conversation with someone that you care about or even
1:17.0	taking the first step toward just a goal that matters deeply to you, but you're pushing it off into
1:22.4	the future. And this is one of those common struggles that we all face. But why? Why do we delay the very things that we know
1:29.6	will help us grow or improve our lives? And more importantly, how can we stop doing that? How can we
1:35.9	stop procrastinating? So today we're going to address procrastination from three different angles.
1:40.2	Number one, why we procrastinate. It's important to understand why we do something so that we can
1:45.9	address the root cause and create lasting change. Number two, we're going to address the cost
1:51.6	of procrastination. It is important to shine a light on the negative consequence of our behavior,
1:56.6	especially over the long term, so that we can change course before it's too late.
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