š§ TL;DR: That āprocrastination problemā might actually be a survival response. Here's how Flight Mode hides in plain sightāand what to do about it.
I used to beat myself up for procrastinating.
Why couldnāt I just sit down and do the thing?
Why did I bounce between projects, chase a million ideas, or suddenly need to reorganize my kitchen instead of writing that email?
Sound familiar?
For a long time, I thought it was a discipline problem. Or maybe some kind of creative quirk. But it turns out, it was something much deeper: my nervous system stuck in Flight Mode.
This is Part 2 of my 3-part series, Survival Mode: The Patterns Behind Your Behavior. In this series, Iām exploring the subtle ways our stress responses shape our work, leadership, and wellbeingāeven when we donāt realize it.
In this weekās episode of my podcast, Movement, Mind, & Meaning, I dive into what Flight Mode really looks like in our modern work livesāand why it so often gets mistaken for laziness, distraction, ...
šItās time you started giving yourself your own gold stars š
I still remember the moment that I figured out that as much as I desperately wanted someone toĀ tell me that YES:
I was good enough
Smart enough
And gosh darn it, people do like me š
That the voice I REALLLLLY wanted and needed to hear it from wasā¦.my own š¤Æ š¤Æ š¤Æ
I realized that I couldn't wait ANY longer or until I had the $10K launch or had 10K followers or some other crazy pants goals I set for myself to FINALLY:
>Believe I could do it
>See myself as awesome
>Trust that I really could show up and help people
That those things had to happen NOW!! That they needed to happen NOW if I had any hope at all in getting anywhere close to those goals.
Wanna learn how to do that too? Yay you do! Because its high time you:
šFind proof of how awesome you ALREADY are (SPOILER ALERT: Thereās lots. The brain however likes to tell us otherwise...)
šBe willing to celebrate the progress youāve already made (which is WAY MORE than ...
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