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m, but the procrastinator39。t quite do stuff. So we had an awesome new revised plan. But then those middle months actually went by, and I didn39。re supposed to spend a year on. And I knew for a paper like that, my normal work flow was not an option. It was way too big a project. So I planned things out, and I decided I kind of had to go something like this. This is how the year would go. But then, the funniest thing happened. Those first few months? They came and went, and I couldn39。s the brain of a nonprocrastinator Now ... here39。t like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, Then we39。s mom. All of that39。re not in tribal times. We39。s an overlap. Sometimes they agree. But other times, it makes much more sense to be doing things that are harder and less pleasant, for the sake of the big picture. And that39。t actually fun, because it39。s the only thing the Monkey is terrified of. Now, he became very relevant in my life pretty recently, because the people of TED reached out to me about six months agoand invited me to do a TED Talk. Now, of course, I said yes. It39。s terrified of the Panic Monster boom, he39。s system works, then what39。ve given, they all have deadlines. And when there39。s no deadlines on those things at first, because nothing39。s a problem, because in all of these nondeadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn39。s this longterm kind of procrastination that39。s why they39。s that longterm procrastination has made them feel like a spectator, at times, in their own lives. The frustration is not that they couldn39。t even able to start chasing them. So I read these s and I had a little bit of an epiphany that I don39。t there. Now, I want to show you one last thing. I call this a Life Calendar. That39。re really procrastinating on, because everyone is procrastinating on something in life. We need to stay aware of the Instant Gratification Monkey. That39