Procrastination Syndrome? Find out the Causes and the Cures!

10/13/17 • 29 min

Balanced Living For Busy Professionals Podcast

Are you a procrastinator? We rarely talk about procrastinating in a positive way, it’s always more of a judgment. In this episode Diane and her guest, Eric Twiggs, discuss the cost, the causes and the cures for procrastination.

Diane’s guest today is Eric Twiggs, a Procrastination Prevention Partner. Eric is an expert in overcoming procrastination, and the author of The Discipline of Now: Twelve Practical Principles to Overcome Procrastination. He has done over 28,000 coaching sessions with entrepreneurs and has really gotten below the surface of the root causes of procrastination.

What you will learn in this episode:

What procrastination is and the primary causes of it
The three categories of root causes Eric sees most often and the vicious cycle of anxiety that perpetuates the procrastination cycle
What procrastination costs us and who benefits from our procrastination habits
Eric’s 5-step Procrastination Prevention Pyramid that can cure procrastination
The importance of having a positive attitude and clarity of purpose
Why you should be aware of your energy power times and the atmosphere of your environment
The reason Eric no longer looks at time management, and what he focuses on instead
How you can delegate, automate and make use of tools and apps to overcome procrastination
The power of knowing your numbers and taking action
The problem of saying yes out of obligation and how setting boundaries helps with tackling procrastination

Quotes:

“Anxiety perpetuates the procrastination cycle.”

“Setting boundaries are very important when tackling procrastination.”

Book: The Discipline of Now

Contact Eric:

Eric M. Twiggs [email protected]

http://www.ericmtwiggs.com

Contact Diane: [email protected]

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a voicemail or comment: http://www.Balanced-Living-For-Busy-Professionals.com

What you will learn in this episode:

What procrastination is and the primary causes of it
The three categories of root causes Eric sees most often and the vicious cycle of anxiety that perpetuates the procrastination cycle
What procrastination costs us and who benefits from our procrastination habits
Eric’s 5-step Procrastination Prevention Pyramid that can cure procrastination
The importance of having a positive attitude and clarity of purpose
Why you should be aware of your energy power times and the atmosphere of your environment
The reason Eric no longer looks at time management, and what he focuses on instead
How you can delegate, automate and make use of tools and apps to overcome procrastination
The power of knowing your numbers and taking action
The problem of saying yes out of obligation and how setting boundaries helps with tackling procrastination

Quotes:

“Anxiety perpetuates the procrastination cycle.”

“Setting boundaries are very important when tackling procrastination.”

Book: The Discipline of Now

Contact Eric:

Eric M. Twiggs [email protected]

http://www.ericmtwiggs.com

Contact Diane: [email protected]

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a voicemail or comment: http://www.Balanced-Living-For-Busy-Professionals.com

Previous Episode

How To Create a Life With Purpose

Today Diane is joined by Kathy Knowles, a speaker, trainer and consultant who speaks on the 7-step system for creating more purpose, profit and possibilities in life and business. In this episode Kathy shares some practical tools and tips on how to create a life with more purpose. Diane and Kathy discuss the importance of trusting your intuition, setting boundaries, and practicing self-love in creating a more balanced life.

What you will learn in today’s episode:

How Kathy went from human resources director to an intuitive consultant
The work Kathy helps business owners with in order to stop working for the business and having a business that works for them
The importance of tapping into your intuition and why the beauty is in finding the silence inside of us
Where to start when moving from knowing what you don’t want to what you do want
The power of getting real on what it is that isn’t serving you and why you can’t let go of it
The difference between habits we’ve learned and what we authentically want
What to do if your outer world is in competition with what’s going on inside
The value in going from being left brain and stuck in problems to right brain, balanced and being
How to protect your boundaries of your new life to prevent the outside world coming in
The reason loving ourselves first makes us more capable of loving everyone else
Why you have to do it scared and the benefits that can come from standing in your strengths and looking into your shadow side
How our challenges and dark sides can end up being our biggest gifts
Why it starts your team and how servant leadership requires you to trust your intuition and leave your ego at the door

Quotes: “Issues aren’t in the way, they’re on the way.”

“When it comes to boundaries, it really comes to us being true to ourselves first.”

“No is a complete sentence all by itself.”

Contact Kathy:

[email protected]

http://www.kathyknowles.com/

Contact Diane:

Email Diane: [email protected]

Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com

Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a voicemail or comment: http://www.Balanced-Living-For-Busy-Professionals.com

Next Episode

Inspiring a New Definition of Workplace Loyalty

Welcome back to Balanced Living for Busy Professionals with your host, Diane Randall. Today, Diane talks to Lee Caraher, the CEO of Double Forte PR and Digital Marketing, about workplace loyalty. Find out what it means, how to foster a positive company culture and so much more. Lee is the author of the book The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from your Employees. Enjoy this episode and the many insights Lee shares.

What you will learn in this episode:

The old and new definition of workplace loyalty
Why an employee can be more valuable to you outside the company than inside the company
How to repair workplace relationships that have been broken by negative exit practices
The five things employees can do to leave well and be rehire-able
The power of creating a corporate alumni program for ex-employees
What you can do if you left a job poorly and are un-boomerang-able
The preparations you must make before leaving a company so that you can maintain the relationships you have
The reason Lee never gives a counter offer and what she says instead
The importance of leaving as many doors open as possible as a leader
What Lee tells new employees in their first week of the job
The most loyal thing an employee can do
Why toxic cultures do affect the growth and profit of a company, no matter what the outward appearances are
Lee’s mission to change the culture of workplaces today