Adulting Decrypted
We prepare young adults to be independent powerhouses for life.--Who We Are: The Adulting Decrypted team is composed of a Dad and his three sons: Roscoe(Dad - age redacted), Ashton(22), Gene(18), and Gideon(14). How We Started: As a family we have always tried to have at least one meal together daily. The meal that typically ends up being is dinner. One night in particular near the beginning of the COVID pandemic, our conversation started with Roscoe mentioning that he had recently read a news article stating that an Ivy League college was offering “Adulting,” classes. These classes were being offered in the hopes that they might be able to educate students who were struggling with common “Adult” tasks. It didn't make sense to us that someone would have to enroll in an Ivy League school to learn things that nearly every person has to deal with daily. To us it seemed that things like shopping, laundry, mental health, communication, taxes, loans, and so much more should be basic knowledge before taking on the substantial challenges of modern life. Eventually the idea was floated that there should be a podcast that can be accessed for free that would help people gain insight into these things that we thought we knew fairly well. Since COVID-19 had caused unemployment and school schedule changes for all of us we thought that there could be no better thing than for us to take on this challenge. Less than a month later, after several planning meetings and countless hours of research, we had recorded and uploaded our first episode.
Adulting Decrypted
S-5 E-9 PROCRASTINATION: Gideon's Struggle With it and the Solutions He Has
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We were going to write a description here but put it off... Just kidding, here is Gideon explaining on where this episode came from: "This episode idea actually came from me as a sort of cry for help. I have been really dealing with procrastination. I have a load of things I want to get done that require a lot of self control to get started. I haven't ended up getting much done so far. And what I have gotten done has been from pure desperation and not through good planning." - Gideon Allen.
How does he talk about it? He breaks it into four main points:
- 2 types of procrastination (deadline and no deadline)
- What are you frustrated your not doing
- Identify Leaks(screen time usage) Limit Distraction
- Checklists
We hope this helps you and we look forward to hearing your thoughts!