This isn't a super challenging task for me. And that in itself causes a lot of problems which I'm gonna get into in a minute. But what actually ends up happening is other non-important items jump up the list and make their way onto your to-do list. I'll give you an example. Today, the only thing I want to do list was to clean record this podcast, but yes, I ended up cleaning my bike. I cleaned my bike two days ago and had been dry every day since. I didn't need to clean my bike, but now my bike is immaculate. My bookshelf is way more organized than it was this morning and there was no need for my my bookshelf to be organized. I've even added filters into my inbox because I got an email in and I was like, ah, that's weird. That should have been in my marketing folder. Why is that come straight into my inbox? So I went about recategorizing, relabeling and setting up filters for all my stuff in my inbox. None of this stuff needed to get done. This all got done because I procrastinate on the podcast. So today's podcast, I'm going to give you three strategies for overcoming this procrastination. The biggest and most pressing need to overcome procrastination is it's like a teeth, it steals joy from those other moments in your life. I had last week as the guest interview, I had Lauren's 10th down, it's a brilliant episode if you haven't listened, go back and listen to it, it's class, it's one of my favorite guest interviews that I've done. But Lauren's has this concept of live slow, ride fast and The idea would live slow when you're not on the bike, that everything becomes quite purposeful and mindful. Like if you're making a coffee, you're not just walking in the espresso, you're taking time to appreciate where the beans have come from. You're taking time to grind out the coffee, you're taking time to appreciate the taste, the person who picked the coffee, the person who packed it, how it got to your table. The same with food when you're cooking, you're not just bugging stuff in the microwave, you're cooking with an appreciation of where the food came from and now it's nourishing you and it's nourishing your family and this whole concept of live slow, this can't be achieved with procrastination. And the more I talked about this today, I had basically an empty day, well, you know, cleaning bikes, organizing shelves and inboxes, basically an empty day. But I did not enjoy it because at the back of my head at every moment, I had this nagging voice gone, you should be on the podcast, you should be researching the podcast, you should be starting to take notes for the podcast, You should be recording, you should be editing it, you should be doing the artwork, you should be figuring out your intro outro. I could not enjoy one moment of my day because it is nagging voice and then the harsher critic the nagging voice is like you're a failure. You know, the the daily podcast is never going to happen. Like it's too ambitious. Why don't you roll back to once a week and you end up having, I almost describe it as like a schizophrenic dialogue on myself and the only way I can describe this is I've spoken on a podcast I have a daily call shower every morning. Actually I probably have a two or three times a day but every morning I wake up and I have a call shower and every morning did I go to have a call shower. This voice in my head speaks to me. These could be the ramblings of a psychotic madman by the way here like maybe you're listening to this and all I don't identify with this at all. You're You're the complete lunatic, but I'm putting myself out here and I'm being vulnerable and I'm exposing myself potentially as a psychotic lunatic. Now I hear cars screeching outside. That could be the men in the white coat coming to section me. You never hear about people being sectioned anymore, but that was a big thing back in the day. Okay, my rant is taking me in a different direction there, but this schizophrenic dialogue that I have every morning when I say to myself, okay, call, share our time. of this other voice and it goes, nah you shouldn't have a cold shower today, but don't worry about it today. Look, it's cold outside, you're going, you're doing a long endurance ride, the last thing you need is to be cold, going out into an endurance ride, you can pick up an infection. And then my head goes, no, you're doing a cold shower. And I have this dialogue back and forth, one voice telling me, the main voice I should be listening to saying, no, you need to do a cold shower, you do a cold shower every morning, it's time to get into the cold shower. And the other voice giving me these reasons as to why I shouldn't do the cold shower. This same schizophrenic dialogue happens to me around procrastination where I know I need to record a podcast episode but somehow this other voice gets control and it's like, maybe you should clean your bike.