79. What Your Procrastination Is Actually Protecting You From
What if the thing you keep avoiding isn’t a discipline problem, but a protection pattern?
There’s usually one project, conversation, or goal that keeps getting pushed to the side. You tell yourself you’ll do it when you have more time, more clarity, or more confidence. But the truth is, procrastination is rarely about laziness. It’s your brain trying to keep you safe from something uncomfortable.
In this episode of What If It All Goes Right?, I break down what procrastination is actually protecting you from. Visibility, failure, success, change, responsibility, disappointment. I walk you through how to identify your specific pattern, why starting feels so charged, and what’s really happening beneath the surface when you stall on the things that matter most.
We also talk through practical ways to move forward without waiting for motivation or perfect timing. Small steps, honest awareness, and building trust with yourself again.
If you’ve been stuck in a cycle of starting and stopping, this episode will help you see procrastination differently and finally work with it instead of fighting it.
What's Discussed:
(00:11) Why the thing you keep avoiding is usually the one that matters most
(01:00) How procrastination works as protection rather than lack of discipline
(04:16) The six fears procrastination is actually shielding you from
(08:11) How to identify your personal procrastination pattern
(14:42) Practical tools to break the cycle and start moving forward
(18:23) Why procrastination is information and how to use it to choose differently
➡️Watch my TEDx talk, What One Pull-Up Taught Me About Resilience, for a deeper look at how small, uncomfortable actions build confidence and reshape identity over time: https://youtu.be/CNEdft5lDMs
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