201: how to stop procrastinating and stop making excuses

07/08/19 • 42 min

Do you find yourself forever procrastinating and making excuses? Has something been on your goals list for what seems forever and you just can't seem to make any progress?You see we are both great at getting results and great at procrastinating so we have a high level of experience (hehe).If you're completely over your excuses and you're ready to see and feel results, tune in to this Get Merry podcast episode.“You can have results or excuses. Not both.” Stuff we talked about...

How it's natural for humans to make excuses and procrastinate. But it doesn't mean it's a good thing!
The most common things we all make excuses for: exercise, work and career success, relationships, social life, eating healthy, family time, learning and development... oh wait. Everything.
How we do one thing is how we do everything!
How to stop procrastinating and stop making excuses.
What are the most common excuses? No time, too tired, not educated enough, I have to look after the kids, born in the wrong era, not enough money, there's too much competition - so no point to start, I'm on this path and have dedicated so much time to it - I can't change, I am stuck in my ways, don't have support, not smart enough, not pretty enough, NOT ENOUGH.
Accept where you are right now, stop dwelling on the past you CAN NOT CHANGE IT! Focus on what you can do right NOW to create a brighter present and future.
Do the important stuff first. Work out what is actually important, what are your core values (not what you SAY they are what do your actions say your values are?).
Get organised, batch work, schedule workouts, get accountability.
Let go of perfection.
Get rid of non-required distractions eg. aimless social media scrolling, TV time.

You might also like Episode 194: Follow these 3 steps and you won't fail your goal.

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How it's natural for humans to make excuses and procrastinate. But it doesn't mean it's a good thing!
The most common things we all make excuses for: exercise, work and career success, relationships, social life, eating healthy, family time, learning and development... oh wait. Everything.
How we do one thing is how we do everything!
How to stop procrastinating and stop making excuses.
What are the most common excuses? No time, too tired, not educated enough, I have to look after the kids, born in the wrong era, not enough money, there's too much competition - so no point to start, I'm on this path and have dedicated so much time to it - I can't change, I am stuck in my ways, don't have support, not smart enough, not pretty enough, NOT ENOUGH.
Accept where you are right now, stop dwelling on the past you CAN NOT CHANGE IT! Focus on what you can do right NOW to create a brighter present and future.
Do the important stuff first. Work out what is actually important, what are your core values (not what you SAY they are what do your actions say your values are?).
Get organised, batch work, schedule workouts, get accountability.
Let go of perfection.
Get rid of non-required distractions eg. aimless social media scrolling, TV time.

You might also like Episode 194: Follow these 3 steps and you won't fail your goal.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

200: our business journey so far (after 6+ years!)

Far out, 200 podcast episodes, boom! And we reckon after 6+ years it's the perfect episode to reflect on our business journey so far.If you have a biz or if you're inspired to start one, this episode is perfect for you. It's a personal reflection, free-flowing and filled with tangents but interwoven you'll hear some of our most favourite business lessons. We chat wins, failures and struggles.Stuff we talked about...

How our unhappiness and general discontent led us to create a blog and business.
Why we do what we do.
All the things we've tried from eBooks, to challenges, to health coaching, to multi-level marketing, to building an app and creating a membership.
Working through the mindset of selling and making money... this was hard for us!
The importance of purpose.
Why the best thing we ever did was STOP and make space for the next idea and the biz pivot.
We get our gratitude on. We are so lucky we have each other.

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Next Episode

202: how to not feel guilty about everything

This was an unplanned podcast episode and sometimes these are the actual best. We chat all things guilt. It was a super interesting topic and we feel like we only just scraped the surface and will do more episodes on it down the track!Stuff we talked about...

Why do we feel guilty?
We're not responsible for other peoples happiness.
It's time to honour yourself and what your heart truly desires. It's ok to put yourself first.
Expectations... why it's ok to change your mind!

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