Why You Procrastinate on Billing (And How to Stop)

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Discover the real psychological and emotional reasons behind billing procrastination. Learn why procrastination isn't about laziness or poor time management, and master practical strategies to overcome the emotional barriers that keep you avoiding your time entries.

Key Takeaways

• Procrastination is driven by emotional discomfort, not poor time management
• Three main reasons for billing procrastination: motivational triad conflicts, fear of others' opinions, and fear of negative emotions
• Billing lacks immediate gratification compared to legal work, requiring internal reward systems
• Negative emotions like shame and overwhelm lead to avoidance behaviors
• The solution lies in shifting emotions and thoughts, not just changing actions

Topics Covered

Understanding Procrastination in Billing

• Definition: Putting off tasks that one could or should be doing
• Why procrastination is emotional, not a time management issue
• The evolutionary and social roots of procrastination behavior
• Normalizing procrastination - it's not due to laziness or lack of self-discipline
• Breaking the cycle by addressing underlying negative thoughts and emotions

The Three Main Reasons for Billing Procrastination

1. Billing Goes Against the Motivational Triad

• The brain's natural tendency to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy
• How billing challenges each aspect of this evolutionary programming:
• Seek Pleasure: Billing lacks immediate gratification compared to legal work
• Avoid Pain: Billing can trigger uncomfortable emotions
• Conserve Energy: The brain procrastinates to save mental energy

2. Fear of Others' Opinions

• Worry about what partners, colleagues, or clients might think about your billing
• Fear of judgment about time entries or billing amounts
• Social anxiety around billing transparency and accountability

3. Fear of Negative Emotions

• Anticipating uncomfortable feelings associated with billing
• Avoidance of emotions like shame, inadequacy, judgment, overwhelm, and vulnerability
• How emotional avoidance creates procrastination cycles

The Gratification Problem in Billing

• Legal work provides immediate intellectual satisfaction and sense of accomplishment
• Billing feels administrative and removed from "real" legal work
• The need to develop internal reward systems for billing tasks
• Creating pleasure and motivation around billing activities

Common Negative Emotions in Billing

• Shame: Feeling embarrassed about time tracking or billing amounts
• Inadequacy: Feeling like you're not good enough at billing
• Judgment: Fear of being criticized for your billing practices
• Overwhelm: Feeling buried by the amount of time to enter
• Vulnerability: Exposing your work patterns and productivity

How Emotions Drive Procrastination

• Negative emotions lead to inaction and avoidance
• People avoid tasks that trigger uncomfortable feelings
• The temporary relief of procrastination reinforces the avoidance cycle
• Why focusing on actions alone doesn't solve procrastination

The Real Costs of Procrastination

• Temporary relief leads to long-term consequences:
• Constant background anxiety about incomplete billing
• Panic and stress when deadlines approach
• Self-shaming and negative self-talk
• Rushed, incomplete, or inaccurate time entries
• Professional and financial consequences

The Emotional vs. Action-Based Solution

• Why willpower and time management techniques fail
• The need to address emotional barriers first
• Shifting from shame-based to empowerment-based mindset
• Developing curiosity about billing challenges instead of judgment

Strategies to Overcome Billing Procrastination

Reframing the Motivational Triad:

1. Emotional Acceptance (Instead of Avoiding Pain)

• Allow initial discomfort without needing to escape it immediately
• Practice sitting with uncomfortable emotions around billing
• Understand that discomfort is temporary and manageable

2. Future Pleasure Focus (Instead of Immediate Gratification)

• Seek future comfort through timely billing completion
• Visualize the relief and satisfaction of being current with time entries
• Create internal rewards for consistent billing behavior

3. Align Billing with Ease (Instead of Energy Conservation)

• Make billing tasks as simple and streamlined as possible
• Reduce friction in your billing process
• Find ways to make billing feel effortless

The Notice, Narrate, Normalize Process

• Notice: Become aware of discomfort and resistance around billing
• Narrate: Describe what you're experiencing without judgment
• Normalize: Accept that these feelings are natural and temporary
• Practice this without immediately taking action to escape the discomfort

Mindset Shifts for Procrastination

• From shame to curiosity about your billing patterns
• From judgment to acceptance of your current challenges
• From avoidance to engagement with uncomfortable emotions
• From perfectionism to progress-focused thinking

Your Action Steps

1. Identify your primary procrastination trigger - Which of the three main reasons affects you most?
2. Practice the Notice, Narrate, Normalize technique next time you feel billing resistance
3. Reframe one aspect of the motivational triad - Focus on future pleasure, emotional acceptance, or creating ease
4. Create an internal reward system for completing billing tasks
5. Address the emotional component before trying to change your billing actions

Tools and Resources Mentioned

• Stop Procrastinating Your Time - The Workbook
• Notice, Narrate, Normalize process
• Motivational triad reframing strategies

Key Insights

• Procrastination is an emotional problem requiring emotional solutions
• The discomfort of addressing billing promptly is less than the long-term discomfort of procrastination
• Positive emotions lead to more productive actions than negative emotions
• Understanding the evolutionary roots of procrastination helps normalize the experience
• Internal motivation systems are crucial for tasks that lack immediate gratification

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Transcript

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Welcome back to the Bill Your Time Today and a stress-free way podcast. I'm your host, Molly Kramer, the Billing Coach. And today we're talking all about breaking the procrastination cycle. In this episode, I'll be talking about why your brain avoids billing and the specific strategies to create consistent contemporaneous timekeeping instead of procrastinating or that reconstructing timekeeping model. Okay, let's dive in. So, procrastination is one of the biggest barriers to consistent, contemporaneous timekeeping. But I really do think it is very misunderstood by all of those people out there in the legal community. Most attorneys, most people in general, think procrastination is simply about poor time management or maybe just a lack of self-discipline. But based on my experience and my own procrastination of my time entry and the experience of my clients, my students, other attorneys that I've worked with, I really do believe that procrastination is always and every time, black letter rule coming up, always about avoiding some sort of emotional discomfort. I really think procrastination goes in your A-line of your model. It is an action that you take. You can put it in other places, but usually when it's a problem, it's because you are taking the action of procrastinating. And the reason you are taking that action, most of the reason revolves around an emotional and a negative emotional feeling in your body, right? Some kind of emotional resistance in your body, which we know is not caused by the circumstance. Whatever it is that you are procrastinating goes in your C line, and it really is the thought you are thinking about it that creates some kind of resistance, some kind of negative emotion in your body, negative vibration in your body. And that is what your brain is trying to get away from. Remember, your brain just wants to keep you safe. So by avoiding the thing it thinks is causing the negative emotion, and in this instance, we'll use billing your time, time entry, capturing your time in the moment, right? It thinks that's the problem. It thinks that's the tiger in the bushes that it wants to get away from. So of course it's gonna want to avoid it. It's gonna want to get away from it, it's gonna want to put it off till later and later and later. But that is the pattern that we are going to break in this program. And I'm gonna help you specifically with this episode. First, I'm gonna show you exactly why you are likely procrastinating. And again, one of them, the main reason I really believe, is just trying to avoid that emotional discomfort. But I'll also give you other reasons why. So let's dive into what I define as procrastination and actually what I really think it is, and then really dive into all of the reasons why we're or you are procrastinating your time entry. So, what is procrastination really? I um I don't know if you guys know this about me, but I was a philosophy major in undergrad, and I was a big nerd around trying to get definitions of things and then building philosophies on those definitions. So I really do like to start with a definition of something and then see how that definition resonates with me personally and see kind of where my philosophy goes based on that definition. So I always just think it's helpful to define what it is that we're gonna be talking about. And here it's procrastination. So to me, how I define it, it comes from a couple of different definitions I found there on the Googles. But what I resonated most with was procrastination is simply putting off something that you could or should be doing. So it's putting off something that you could or should be doing. But the big question is why? Why are you putting off something that you could or should be doing? Why are you putting that thing off? So I think in relation to your billing, there are three main reasons why so many attorneys procrastinate. So one of the big ones, the first reason, I think is it because it goes against the motivational triad. And I'm gonna go into detail about the three components of that motivational triad on this episode. I also think it is a fear of what others will think. Why we procrastinate is we're afraid of what others are going to think of us when we complete that billing narrative, right? What they're gonna be thinking and feeling in their bodies about us. And so that's a reason why we procrastinate. We put off those narratives, put off that time entry because we're afraid of what they will think. And finally, fear of what we are going to feel. And I really do think this is the real culprit, the negative emotions that we will feel when we go and do the time entry. Okay, so let's start with the first one. So I think the reason we procrastinate our billing goes back to this motivational triad that is based evolutionarily, socially, and there are three main points of this triad. So the first one is evolutionarily, our brains are programmed to avoid anything that it perceives as possibly painful or uncomfortable. So, number one is to avoid pain. Our brains are wired to avoid pain, and that is both the physical pain of like getting eaten by a tiger, right? Or like feeling any physical discomfort, but also emotional pain. So our brains literally are wired to avoid things that feel painful, that feel negative physically and emotionally. And definitely now, since there's not really any physical threats to our bodies, our brain is highly sensitive to emotional pain and will do everything in its power to steer you away from feeling emotional pain. So part of the reason that your brain keeps steering you away from getting your time entry in as you go is because of the negative thoughts you're thinking and the negative emotions you're feeling about billing. Right? So when you think a negative thought about billing, you feel a negative emotion about billing, your brain will treat that negative discomfort, that negative emotion the same way it would treat physical, physical pain as a threat to avoid. So this really explains why even momentary discomfort with billing can trigger such strong avoidance responses. So I really want that to sink in because I really want you to normalize and not criticize or judge yourself if you have been procrastinating entering your time. There is an evolutionary component to it. It's just your brain actually working quite well, right? Your brain's doing exactly what it's been evolved to do. And the same thing socially, we've been trained to avoid negative emotion, right? Just be happy, right? Just feel happy. So part of this program is that is not my philosophy. My philosophy is not to just be happy all the time and to try to overwrite how you are really feeling and thinking, right? Because if you're just trying to be happy, you are not solving the underlying unhappy thoughts that are leading to the unhappy feeling. So I think there are societal routes to this, there are evolutionary routes to procrastination. So I just want you to really normalize it if this is you, if you have been taking the action of procrastinating your billing, it makes sense. So, like, of course, again, notice Neri, normalize. When you normalize why you've been procrastinating and understanding that you're not defective or broken or lazy or lack self-discipline, that takes a little bit of that criticism, judgment, that extra layer of negative emotion off of you, so that we really can start to fix the real root of the problem, which is just some default thinking that is creating some default negative emotion that you are default avoiding and creating default net negative billing results. So I just want you to see that as one of the reasons why you are procrastinating. So again, billing goes against that motivational triad because typically, when attorneys think about billing, it's more painful. They have mostly negative thoughts and feelings about it. So it really does hit on that motivational triad. You're not going to be motivated to bill because typically most attorneys think about billing in a negative way. They don't think about it in a way that makes them feel empowered or confident or curious or energized or eager, right? It's the opposite. It's dreadful, it's annoying, it's frustrating, it's confusing, it's shameful. You feel guilty, right? It's like all of those negative emotions are so wrapped up around billing because of what other lawyers are saying, how billing has been portrayed socially, right? Lawyers are always out there to bill, right? All of the thoughts and the narrative around billing. So in this program, I am hoping that you get a very different narrative around billing for to serve you, to serve you so that you can show up and bill your time and not procrastinate it. Excuse me. So the other reason, this motivational triad. So one of the triad points was avoid pain. The other one is to seek pleasure. So your brain has evolved to constantly scan your environment for activities that deliver the immediate rewards and dopamine hits. So legal work itself actually often provides a lot of intellectual stimulation, a lot of problem-solving satisfaction, right? Client appreciation, partner appreciation for the work you're doing. But billing offers very little immediate gratification, very little problem-solving satisfaction, very little, if any, basically zero, client appreciation or partner appreciation and very little intellectual stimulation. So not much pleasure, not much dopamine hits with the billing. Obviously, that is what I'm going to help you learn how to do in this program as well. I will teach you ways where you can create those dopamine hits by doing it yourself internally, right? That's why we have a whole podcast on celebrating your billing wins so that you can create those internal dopamine hits, those internal rewards by celebrating the progress, celebrating the fact that you are creating this habit for yourself that is for you, right? And only you. I like to talk about billing, and I may do a whole podcast on this as the invisible work that you do as a lawyer. There's a lot of things that you do as a lawyer where you're not getting external rewards for, external accolades for, right? Like uh CLEs, like it's going to CLEs and getting the CLEs. Um, a lot of business development, um, a lot of just trainings, right? That sort of stuff. A lot of mentorship kind of falls in that category category, right? You're not getting a lot of rewards from mentoring other attorneys. But there are so many intangible benefits from doing all of these things, right? Just focusing on the legal work and just churning out the legal work. Like you can't create a sustainable practice around that. Or at least if you do, it will be very narrowly focused. So, in order to have a broader practice, in order to have a well-rounded practice, I think the skill set that you need to develop and that you can develop and will learn how to develop in this program is that internal reward system, that internal self-appreciation, self-validation that I will teach you exactly how to do. And the model is a big component of it. So I know there are, I think I already have some episodes on how to celebrate your billing wins. And I'm gonna redo those episodes. I'm gonna make it one big episode instead of I think it's it's two right now, part one and part two. But it's a really big component of creating an internal self-validation practice and creating more pleasure around billing because nobody else is gonna do it for you, right? It's crickets out there. Okay. Um, so again, billing is the opposite of pleasurable, right? Very little immediate gratification versus the legal work in the moment, lots of immediate gratification. So the other thing that your brain is motivated to do is to conserve energy. So we had avoid pain, seek pleasure, and your brain has also evolved to conserve energy. So your brain aims to conserve a lot of the mental resources, mental faculties, glucose, right? The sugar in your brain, whenever possible. So task switching from the substantive legal work to the, you know, quote unquote administrative billing work does require some cognitive effort. And just doing the billing requires some cognitive effort. And your brain's like, mm-mm, let's not do that. Let's conserve all of our energy for the legal work, and then we'll do the billing work at the end of the day when maybe we have like a little bit of energy left and we'll just get it done, or at the end of the week, or the end of the month, because I have to conserve all my energy, all my mental resources, all that brain space for the legal work, right? Because it is very right mentally challenging. So I don't want to fatigue it with all these extra things like billing, right? Let's do that later. And so, whatever, however, your brain rationalizes it to you, or maybe it's something you're kind of doing, you know, subconsciously, or however you want to think about it. But your brain literally wants to conserve energy and it sees billing as kind of a threat to that. It's like I only have so much mental energy during the day, and that needs to be geared towards getting this legal work done. So your brain is like, no billing, right? Um, so that is the other thing. It really wants to conserve energy. Also, when you wait till the end of the day and your habit is to do it at the end of the day, or you wait till the end of the week or the end of the month, it is a huge amount of time that you have to start spending to catch up on your billing. And so your brain is like, oh my God, right? This is so much energy I'm gonna have to expend, right? I want to conserve my energy. So let's keep procrastinating, putting the billing until finally at the end of the month, your brain is like, oh my God, I feel so much fear, panic, anxiety that like it overrides that internal conserving energy motivation. And your brain's like, I just want to get out of feeling fear. I just want to hit this deadline. I'm so panicked about not hitting it that like actually doing the billing is no big deal. So it's like it overrides that conserve energy motivation. And it's like, we just want to get out of feeling totally panicked about not hitting the deadline. So that's why it's typically easier to show up and get all the billing done at the end of the month. Okay, so that motivational triad, it is something that human brains have evolved to be motivated by to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy. And billing for each one of those is like the opposite of it. So I'm gonna talk a little bit about how to flip that motivational triad on its head so that you can start to associate billing with something that is pleasurable, something that doesn't take that much time, and something that isn't painful emotionally. And I'll talk about that in a little bit. Okay, so reason number two the reason why so many attorneys procrastinate their billing is a fear of what others will think when they read the billing, right? And others as clients, partners, right? Most attorneys procrastinate what they are afraid, what others are going to think about the task when it's done. So this shows up in billing when you're worried about what if the client thinks this took too long? What if the partner thinks I'm inefficient? What if they question my time entries? What if, what if, what if? There's a book I read to my daughters a couple of years ago called The What If Pig. This poor pig, so many what ifs, just spiraling. So in your action line, when you're spiraling in the what ifs, what if, what if, what if, your brain is freaking out. And it's thinking, well, how do I feel better? Oh, let's just not do this billing thing. Right? This what-ifing is making me feel super worried, super panicked, super like, oh my God, I don't want them to be thinking this. What if they do? What if, what if? So of course your brain's like, what is the solution to this what if pain, this what if negative emotional pain? Oh, just don't do the billing. Go do something else. Do the billing later. Solved relief. So the relief that you feel when you procrastinate, I'm gonna say this over and over again because I really want it to sink in. The relief you feel when you procrastinate is temporary. It is a momentary fix for a problem that is never solved through action. Right? Especially if it's something that you have to do, like your time entry. The real solution in order to fix the negative emotion around your billing is the emotional journey, the thought-based journey, right? The thinking solution, the next best thought solution. That is the solution by shifting your thinking and feeling about your billing to a place that feels more believable, so that it is so much easier to not procrastinate, to not go down the what-if spiral, right, and not do the billing. But I will say that over and over and over again. The journey you want to take with your billing is not the action journey. The journey you want to take with changing your billing habits is that emotional, thought-based journey. That's how you're gonna fix all of any problematic actions you're taking with your billing. Okay, so that is reason number two, what others will think, right? And it's the what if scariness of like what they're gonna think about your billing, the time, the narratives, you, all of that. And then number three is just the fear of what we're going to feel. So, again, this is one of the main reasons why attorneys procrastinate their time entry, is what they think they're gonna feel when they do the thing that they're not doing, right? And definitely the procrastination, I really do think is simply an underfeeling problem, not a procrastination problem. So, again, our brains want to procrastinate doing the thing, taking the action of billing, because our brains are afraid of what we're going to feel when we actually do go and bill, right? What others will think of our billing once we do it, and definitely exerting effort away from what it thinks is really important, which it really does think it's your legal work. So, going back to those emotions, I really do think the emotions are what we are avoiding when we're procrastinating anything. So, some of the emotions, I think it's helpful to kind of lay them out. Most of the common ones are shame, right? Like, I should have done this already. I feel so disorganized with my time entry, right? Feeling shame about having bad billing habits, procrastinating your billing. That is definitely one of the things that is an emotion that so many humans want to avoid is that feeling of shame and around your billing too. So think about if you haven't been contemporaneously entering your time for a couple of days, one of the thoughts could be, Oh my God, I can't believe it. Here we go again. I can't believe that I still haven't figured out my billing habits. I suck at this, I'm such a bad attorney. Like, why haven't I figured this out? So much shame. And when you're feeling shame, the last thing you're gonna want to do is go start billing. Right? You're not gonna be like, all of a sudden, let's go take the action of catching up on all my time, especially when you're feeling shame. Now, maybe you switch into a different model that doesn't feel like shame. Maybe it's like I'm more empowered. Maybe you're like, okay, yeah, I didn't do it, but I I have time now, I can do it. It's not gonna be that big of a deal. I can get this all caught up on. That is a very different model. That is a model that that creates the feeling of empowerment, of more confidence, of capacity. Versus the shame model is, God, I should have done this already. Why can't I figure this out? I'm so disorganized. So just notice which model you're in. I have a lot of clients who are like, well, yeah, I was thinking this, but I actually did take the action of getting my billing done. But that always comes from a different model. Anytime you're in a shame model, anytime you're in a negative emotion model, the action will always be something that will be negative. Always. Again, black letter rule: negative thought, negative feeling, negative action, negative result. But typically what happens is our thoughts are so quick that we do sometimes coach ourselves out of that shame. We actually do get to that next best thought, next best thought, next best thought. We come up that emotional scale and then we get to a place where we're actually feeling more confident, more empowered, more curious about how we could actually catch up on that billing. Very different model. So I just want you guys to be aware of that. Other common feelings that we're trying to avoid when it comes to our billing, inadequacy, right? I don't know if I did enough to justify this time. I don't know if this is the right amount of time to bill. I don't think I have enough time this month feeling inadequate. Or judgment. God, they're gonna think I'm I'm so slow or inefficient or not smart enough. Or overwhelm. Oh my God, I have so many time entries to catch up on. I have so much legal work to do. I can't get this all done. Or vulnerability. I'm putting my work out there, my my legal or my narratives out there to be scrutinized, right? And like someone's gonna look at them and think these aren't good enough. So really, really interesting. I also want to bring this to your attention about some of the real costs of procrastination. So very important. When you avoid billing, yes, you get a little bit of a hit of relief in that moment, but you're also carrying around some constant low-grade anxiety, right? It's like that background music, that anxiety music you can't turn off, right? And then the deadline hits, the deadline time hits, and suddenly, right, you have all that panic, pressure, um, fear about missing the deadline. And so that is what typically motivates you to do it. And so you do do it, right? You actually do recreate it all the time and you reconstruct all your time and you get it in, hopefully, right? But you're feeling terrible about yourself the whole time for the most part, right? You're like shaming yourself while you're doing it, but like trying to get through it. And so that feels terrible. And it's interesting because when you are procrastinating, you're trying to get the relief, you're getting that hit of feeling better in the moment, but there's so many more negative downsides on the back end, right? There's like all of the spinning that goes on in your mind about I should be billing, I should, I need to get my billing in, I need to remember that, right? All throughout the month and not doing it. So there's still a lot of discomfort throughout the month, even though you get a little hit of relief when you procrastinate. And then, of course, there's more discomfort as the billing deadline looms. And then there's more discomfort as you're actually getting through the reconstructing your time, tons of discomfort. And then even when you're done getting in and by the deadline, there's discomfort on the other side of that. When you shame yourself again, like I can't believe I did this again, another month, another waiting till the last minute. God, I suck at this. I still can't figure it out. So lots of discomfort. Lots of discomfort when you procrastinate your billing, versus when you get the billing done in the moment, like, yeah, you have to feel some momentary discomfort around, you know, feeling dread around billing or frustration around billing or whatever it is. But mostly, like, that's it. Right. And then when you do that billing in the moment, maybe you feel a little dread, maybe a little confusion, right? You notice narrate normalized, maybe you can get to that next best thought, maybe you can cringe and count it, but then you get it done. So you get the pleasure of actually doing it, right? You feel proud and accomplished of getting the entry in, maybe not as hard as you thought. You get access to that thought, motivation kicks in, you get some momentum, you feel determined, you feel grateful to yourself for doing it, right? All of this is an upside. And so, again, when the billing is done, when you have it all finished, you feel proud of yourself, accomplished, celebratory, deserving, lots of upsides versus the procrastinating more downsides, even though we tell ourselves that it's more pleasurable to put it off till later. So, what I want you guys to do, now I'm gonna give you my solution. The way I like to say it is feel it to heal it, or it's a little cheesy, but really flipping that motivational triad on its head and making sure you are aligning your billing with more ease and pleasurable emotions versus all of the discomfort. So I also call it my triad of billing intentions, kind of like the motivational triad, but you have to be very intentional about how you want to be thinking and feeling about your billing. It can't be the default. The default is that billing is painful, it's not pleasurable, and it takes a lot of effort. But instead, if you take that motivational triad, you kind of flip it on its head and you create a new, more helpful triad of billing intentions. You can, number one, practice allowing some emotional discomfort in the beginning instead of fighting and resisting the emotional discomfort by feeling terrible and then avoiding your billing. So if you can allow some emotional discomfort, super helpful. And also you can seek future pleasure knowing that if you get your billing done now and you feel a little uncomfortable, that's okay because you know the future comfort, right? Future pleasure is what you are going to get versus that future displeasure when you put it off. So being future pleasure oriented versus the immediate gratification. And then also aligning your billing with more ease, right? Making it something that you can do in a minute or two. And that's part of this too. Showing your brain that it really just takes a minute or two to get a billing time entry done if you are doing it as you go. So hopefully that was helpful to you guys. Um, I will be talking about how to flip that motivational triad on its head throughout this program. But those are kind of the simple ways to do it. We're gonna notice, narrate, normalize next best thought in order to allow some of that initial discomfort associated with the thoughts you're thinking about the billing. And instead of trying to action your way out of it, you're gonna shift the thought. You're gonna use those opening phrases and bridge thoughts to shift the thought to feel a little bit better, and then see yourself more likely taking the action of billing in the moment when you feel a little bit better. You will more likely show up and bill some of your time. And so I really want you guys to at least take that first step of really allowing the discomfort, nothing's gone wrong, noticing it, narrating it, normalizing it, next best thought, not trying to action your way out of it. And then also remembering that there is that future pleasure on the other side when you have all your billing done. And really you can access that as soon as the end of the day. At the end of the day, you get that priceless feeling of it's done. It's done energy. The work is done, the billing's done, the legal work's done, I can go home, nothing to remember, I can be fully present. That is the comfort that you are seeking. The pleasure you are seeking by contemporaneously entering your time in the moment is that it's done. And even later the next day, you can still get more pleasure by knowing that you don't have to catch up on your billing that morning. You can just start where you're at and start working. Okay. So, in the next episode, that's all I have for this episode. Uh, but in the next one, I'm going to jump into billing backslides and how you can bounce back better. Um, I do have a workbook that goes along with this how to stop procrastinating. So I'll put that in the show notes. Um, and so hopefully that will be helpful for you guys. And also, I think I have an outline um that I can share with you about how to stop procrastinating. So you can take away some of these lessons you learned in this episode. All right, you guys got this. Um, I will see you in the next episode.

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