The Perfectionism Project12 Mars 2023

Ep 387: How To Know If You're Procrasti-Working?

Procrasti-working is when we work on our business as a form of procrastination. And if you do it, you're not alone.

Perfectionist entrepreneurs don't procrastinate in the same ways as everyone else. Instead of avoiding work, we procrasti-work. This can look like scrambling to get all of your content created each week, moving sales tasks from one to-do list to the next or eating lunch at your desk while procrasti-learning something about marketing.

This episode will teach you about the 3 types of procrasti-working. By the end of the episode, you'll know how to spot procrasti-working and my proven process for cutting it in half. Plus you'll learn why procrasti-working is a normal part of building a successful business (I still do it) and why zero procrastination is not the goal.

In this episode I dissect procrastination advice from some of the top ranked articles on google and explain why this advice doesn't work for perfectionists. The episode is worth listening to for this alone. All you need to do is hit play…

Find the full episode transcript and show notes at samlaurabrown.com/episode387.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

The difference between working and procrasti-working
The hidden reasons that perfectionists procrasti-work
What happens when we cut our procrasti-working in half
Why common procrastination advice doesn't work for perfectionists
The 3 types of procrasti-working and how to tell whether you're doing them

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