Episode 53 : Procrastination

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What is up everybody? Thank you so much for joining me. This is Michele Heyward woman of color still founder of the tech company positive hire. And tonight, we are on day three of seven days of talking about preparing for preparing for your 2019 goals. Yes, that is what we're doing. That is what this is about. Hey, Big Daddy, Panama. Thanks for joining. So if you missed the first two days, I'm gonna tell you day one was about looking at your habits, looking at your habits, and yesterday, which was day two, was all about planning for the unexpected. Um, how do you prepare, expect the unexpected and what you should do to prepare for them?
All right. So right now we're going to get into day three, which is all about her fascination goal setters gold gold status with gold diggers go getters don't procrastinate that often most of time they are in action. And you're probably wondering how do they How do they do that?
So I have three main tips and then something I really really want you to focus on Hey Stevie. When it comes to your goals when it comes to setting your goals when it comes to reaching your goals thanks for sharing this out. If you haven't press those three dots go ahead and press those three dots and share this out okay. We're done when it comes to you really going after your goals you really pushing for with your goals. You need to number Why? Because you know you're procrastinating
You know, you're not taking action. Hey, Tiffany. The first thing I want you to do is write down don't want you to first visualize and then write down what you see what the It look like after you have achieved this goal, a lot of times we know we have to get it done. And we say yeah, cuz once I get it done, I will have all the stress done. But what does that really look like when you pay off your student loan? When you pay off your mortgage when you lose those 40 pounds and you're no longer on the meds, right?
What does that life look like? visualize it and write it down some of your really great artists, you may be able to draw it out by hand, even using illustrator or something and really make a visual story of what your life would look like. Some of you can go through and put together a book and just cut out magazines. Right?
And it's really really important you do this because a lot of times we need that inspiration we need that push and us understand and literally seeing Seeing is believing right? Where we will be if we stop procrastinating will get us in action, right? will get us in action. So make that visual, be a visual person so you can get to where you want to be with your 2019 goals. Now, this is very, very hard for people to do.
So you have this big, hairy audacious goal. That's what they say right? But what happens If you're able to break that big goal down into smaller steps, then smaller steps, the smaller steps, and it's like, well, I can do that if I only have to do this, and I have to do it 1511 times to get here. I probably can do that. Right? Like how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time? How do you how do you prepare for a marathon? You start doing five K's 10 K's right, a half marathon. You keep doing those runs.
Most people don't jump into a full marathon. Right? So you start preparing a you make it? Yeah, the girl big hairy, audacious goal, right? You take it one step at a time and being able to break that goal down into those small manageable steps and actions will help you move through your procrastination. Yes, it really does where you would be amazed and some of you like Michelle It makes no sense. Okay. Okay.
How long did it take you to graduate high school? Most people it took 1213 years dependent 14 of you day pre K, kindergarten and kindergarten. So 13 years, 13 years, right? If somebody told you it's going to take you 13 years to make $5 million, most of y'all would quit. But it took you 13 years ago damn sheet of paper. And you most of us kept going. And most like Yeah, um, I was motivated by my parents that will get out the house divided go to school, I will have a place to live Monday. You need to have that same motivation. So that 13 years it took you to get that one piece of paper write that one piece of paper was broken down into different levels of school. So you have high school Middle School. So you had high school junior high Middle School. elementary here we have high school, middle school, elementary and primary, something like that. And then in each one of those you still had kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, right?
And then even within those, you have time periods where you have not first nine weeks, the second nine weeks, right? That's half a year. Then you have the third nine weeks, the fourth time, you have different periods within you get summer break, you get spring break, you get winter break, right. There are different periods in your is all and we we often don't see those as small action steps. And they really are and then you go from the semester, right, you go from the semester, to a month to a week, to a day. Then in those days you have English class math class, science, class, art, music, pe I don't know something else in there. I'm missing some classes. Right. But you get what I'm studying or naptime. I say, study on laptop, never.
But anyway, you get what I'm saying. So when you break it down to that level, that minute level, guess what you say? Well, yeah, I can do fourth grade. I mean, all I'm going to do is learn this. all I'm gonna do is learn that and then I'm gonna go to this teacher. We have broken school down to such my new action items until Guess what? We go and do it. And we don't realize it has taken us 13 years to get a sheet of paper. Hello. And then we go to college, and we're gonna take me four to five years to do this.
And if I get a Masters we're gonna take to me like, Do y'all realize, and so we're so excited because we thought 13 years was nothing, but then let me tell you, some of y'all probably realize 13 years A long time so this way did they let you go to kindergarten? So you felt accomplished right? So what that was that was a milestone we call those milestones. And so you get rewarded with a piece of paper. Then you graduate from elementary or whatever.
Oh, this breaking your grandma no show up your mom and your dad inertia, right? Did you graduate from middle school junior high graduation Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Did you graduate high school and a pass out?
Yeah, my house right.
20 years ago, just exactly
20 is gone. Just like that. A y'all have to put in those milestones in there.