COURSE

How To Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

I have to be honest with you, it’s been a few weeks since I wanted to record this course but the reality is that I kept postponing it. What an irony! I am procrastinating on telling you about how to stop procrastinating! Or maybe I was simply immersing myself in this problem to better understand it… ;-) Find out why we procrastinate, understand the key aspects of procrastination, and what you can do about it in 4 steps.

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Meet your Teacher

Rianna Hijlkema

Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

Rianna is a multi-passionate serial entrepreneur living a nomadic life for the past 11 years. As a Wilderness guide and nature-based coach she supports involuntarily childless women who’ve lost their sense of purpose to redesign their plan A, so that they can be their own inner guides to fulfillment and happiness. Your donations will contribute to female empowerment projects run by CWEC in Lamjung, Nepal.

4 Days

438 students

4.2 stars

5 min / day

Clarity

English

Lesson 1

Why do you procrastinate?

You know you should do something, but somehow you end up not doing it. It doesn’t make sense, in your mind it is clear! But the day goes by and you keep ignoring what you should do until you decide to do it tomorrow. So you give yourself a pep talk and promise that tomorrow will be different. But then, well, you know how it goes…

Lesson 3

What are the key aspects of procrastination?

Our human brain evolved to respond to an immediate-returns environment. Where everything we did had an instant consequence. However, in a few thousand years (a blink of an eye in human history), everything changed towards a delayed-returns environment. You do something today and enjoy the benefit later. Consequently, we struggle when the gratification comes later because we value immediate rewards more than future rewards.

Lesson 3

The 4 steps to stop procrastinating

Let me illustrate the following steps with two different examples: 1. You want to be fit but you procrastinate to workout. 2. You have an important call to make but somehow you keep postponing it.

Lesson 4

What if the steps to stop procrastinating don’t work?

Ok, so you’ve listened to this course and have done all the steps described above, but still, you couldn’t stop procrastinating? Don't give up yet! I’ve got another idea worth exploring. Dive right in!

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Recent Reviews

Samantha

January 10, 2024

Very good short but brilliant

Vero

October 14, 2023

The four lessons of this “course” should be one talk: all of them are short, copied from other courses and unoriginal. A waste of time. The first time I am highly disappointed in an Insight Timer course...

Siddharth

September 19, 2023

Amazing insight

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