YANSS 318 – How to cross the gap between what you intend to do and what you tend to do instead
In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you very much intend to do and what you tend to do instead. It turns out, there’s a well-researched psychological framework that includes a term for when you have a stated, known goal – a change you’d like to make in your life – something you wake up intending to finally do or get started doing, but then don’t do while knowing full well you are actively not doing what you ought and wish you had done by now. After we discuss this phenomenon and how to deal with it, we get into procrastination and how to escape all manner of dead-end behavioral loops.
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[image error]Official Description of the Book:
Exercises and activities to help you move past what’s holding you back, in work and life
You want to get fit, but you keep putting it off. Your career is stalled out, and you’re not sure how to give it a jump. You fall into the same unhealthy relationship patterns over and over. If you’ve been in any of these scenarios, you know what it means to be stuck—but you don’t have to stay that way.
You’re not lazy and you’re not unmotivated. You just need the right set of tools. And Britt Frank uses her background as a clinician, educator, and trauma specialist to bring you a whole new tool kit with this interactive workbook. Inside you’ll find questionnaires, writing prompts, and other practical, step-by-step exercises to help you:
break bad habitscommunicate more skillfully stop the war in your headhold healthy boundariesrestore your sense of choice
Britt FrankBritt Frank is a therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist who is committed to dismantling the mental health myths that keep us feeling stuck and sick.
Her work focuses on empowering people to understand the inner mechanisms of their brains and bodies. When we know how things work, the capacity for choice is restored and life can and does change.
Whether she’s leading a workshop, teaching a class, or working individually with private clients, Britt’s goal is to educate, empower, and equip people to transform even their most persistent and long-standing patterns of thinking and doing.
This is a link to her Instagram.
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