Take the first step in faith, you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step - Martin Luther King
Of the many technologies and emotions that freelancers need to juggle, the topic of “productivity” and “procrastination” is one that is so often talked about in the Freelance Heroes community. It comes up time and time again, since before the pandemic began, during (unsurprisingly), and it’ll no doubt come up after.
However, we know why we are freelancers and what work we need to do, so why do we struggle so much with being productive? What can we do to avoid the struggle before spending all day doing nothing? Do we procrastinate to put off doing what needs to be done, or is it our subconscious saying “Hold on, I haven’t worked this out yet”? Is procrastination a form of stress relief?
All these questions, and many more, are discussed when Ed chatted with Grace Marshall, Productivity Ninja and author of “Struggle - The Surprising truth, beauty, and opportunity hiding in life’s sh*ttier moments”.
About Grace Marshall
Author of the award-winning How to be Really Productive, Grace Marshall is known for her ‘refreshingly human’ approach to productivity. Featured in The Guardian, Forbes, and HuffPost, her work as a Productivity Ninja with global productivity training company Think Productive has helped thousands of people to replace stress, overwhelm, and frustration with success, sanity, and satisfaction.
Grace’s new book Struggle: “the surprising truth, beauty, and opportunity hidden in life’s sh*ttier moments” is out on April 13th (April 12th on Kindle).
Connect with Grace at:
GraceMarshall.com
StruggleTheBook.com
Twitter: @GraceMarshall
IG: @gracemarshallninja
Facebook: facebook.com/gracemarshallcoaching
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gracemarshall
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