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Two hundred toenails: Strategies to get going on avoidance goals
Two hundred toenails: Strategies to get going on avoidance goals
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Oct 1, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Avoidance goals create a focus on avoiding or eliminating undesired outcomes. For example, avoid failing my exam. Approach-oriented goals involve reaching or maintaining desired outcomes; get an "A" on my exam. Although approach-oriented goals are related to more happiness and goal success overall, we all have avoidance goals in our lives. In this podcast, I discuss one of my avoidance goals and some strategies I use to help me get going on the task that is ripe for procrastination.By popular request, I end this episode with my dog team howling good night after the evening feeding. If you'd like to learn more about my "other life" as a dog musher, check out this story from Mushing Magazine (Note: This is a 6 MB PDF document).To learn more, see procrastination.ca. Our latest Carpe Diem cartoon has a focus on approach and avoidance goals.
Released:
Oct 1, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
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Taxes and other aversive stuff: Why do we put it off? (Why not!?): Why do so many of us procrastinate on our taxes? Isn't the saner question, who doesn't? Who likes doing taxes? In fact, that's part of the answer to why we put it off - it's aversive! But, what does aversive mean? We explore a little bit of this based... by iProcrastinate Podcast