The video offers practical, actionable advice for common struggles like procrastination and anxiety, presented in a relatable and encouraging tone. The creator's personal experience and the clear, numbered tips make the content easily digestible and applicable.
Summary
The creator shares six tips for overcoming procrastination and anxiety to become more productive. She emphasizes the importance of using a planner and calendar, setting reminders, prioritizing tasks, adding addresses to events, building in buffer time, and rewarding oneself for accomplishments.
Structure
1Introduction to the series and topic
2Personal struggle with anxiety and depression
3Tip 1: Systemize and write down tasks
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The 180 Ep. 2 procrastination to productive, how to actually get sh*t done @Passion Planner @EADEM @ouraring @Revolve #productivity #procrastination #SelfImprovement #anxietyrelief #GlowUp
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Tip 2: Set reminders for events
5Tip 3: Create an intentional to-do list
6Tip 4: Add addresses to calendar events
7Tip 5: Build in buffer time for travel
8Tip 6: Reward yourself for small wins
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THE
THE 180
becoming your highest self
ep.2 procrastination to productive
1. write it down
2. set reminders
3. intentional to do list
4. add addresses to events / calendar
5. build in a buffer
6. reward yourself for the little wins
Transcript
If you are sick of your own shit, I think this is going to be the series for you. Welcome back to The 180, becoming your highest self, episode two, procrastination to productive. I can confidently say I am one of the highest functioning anxious people I have ever met. I've dealt with depression and anxiety throughout my life and I have mostly cured that myself through my mindset shifts and also the habits that I do. These are a bunch of the tips that I would give you if you're also struggling with anxiety and I have went from being absolutely debilitated by my daily tasks to absolutely crushing every single day because I live by these couple little rules that I made for myself. Number one is to find a system to organize your life. Your memory is not enough. Our brains are not meant to hold so much at once. I use a physical planner, I've been using a Passion Planner for over seven years now. And I also live by my Google calendar and my Apple calendar. This way you're never going to forget to order the card for your friend's birthday, to order the flowers, to do whatever you need to do in your daily life ahead of time so that you're not scrambling and stressed out last minute. Number two is that once you put those things into your calendar, you're going to set reminders. I do one week before the event and I do one or two days before the event. So that I have no excuse. If it's a workout, if it's a class, if it's my friend's thing going on, I'm going to be there and I'm going to know about it and I'm going to be prepared. Number three is my whole grail. I break the to-do list. Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank, he always talked about only doing the top three things on your list every single day. You might make a to-do list with 50 things on it and you look at it and you freak out and you're like, 'Oh, I actually can't do any of that today because it's way too much to handle at once.' I actually take a physical highlighter and I highlight the top three to four most important things that I need to accomplish that day. And I make sure I knock them out. Trust me, by the end of the week, I'll end up rewriting the to-do list every couple of days. And when I look back, I'm like, 'Holy shit, how did I get all that done?' And unfortunately, not accomplishing the most daunting tasks is usually the best way to go about it because then the other tasks, you're like, 'Oh, easy, two minutes.' Done. Going back to the calendar thing, we are so spoiled with technology these days. I always put the address into the calendar, especially if I've never been there before. So that last minute, I'm not going to the wrong place, I'm not scrambling. I can punch it into my maps and it'll tell me exactly how long it's going to take me to get there. Number five is build in a buffer. Leaving earlier than you think you need to. If it's a 30 minute drive, leave 40 minutes ahead of time. So that I have a little bit of buffer time because you never know there might be an accident, there might be traffic, you might have to stop for gas. You just don't know what's going to pop up. And it's always better to be a little bit ahead of time than late. All of my friends know that I used to be chronically late. My friend Ali in college always called me the 'last minute list.' So that I've done this is remarkable. Trust me, if I can do it, you definitely can. And number six, reward yourself for the little wins. With that, you can reward yourself for the extra time that you've taken. For example, I went to my nail appointment, I left extra early, stopped at a little coffee shop on my way there and I discovered a brand new place that I absolutely love now because I gave myself the extra time before the appointment to stop there. It's not about romanticizing everything, not everything has to be so perfect all the time, but reward yourself for being an adult.
