{"id":2832,"date":"2026-08-10T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/procrastination-is-an-emergency-brake\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:52:11","slug":"procrastination-is-an-emergency-brake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/procrastination-is-an-emergency-brake\/","title":{"rendered":"Procrastination is an emergency brake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProcrastination is an emergency brake for your stress system.\u201d Stress expert Elke Van Hoof on self-leadership, self-regulation, and procrastination as a warning sign. <\/p>\n<p>Why do you keep putting things off, even though you know what the solution is? Is it a lack of willpower? <\/p>\n<p>In this episode of \u201cStress as a BFF,\u201d stress expert Elke Van Hoof explains why that moment when you hit a wall has nothing to do with laziness or a lack of discipline. What\u2019s really going on are three layers that come under pressure: self-leadership, self-regulation, and procrastination. As long as you lump them all together, it remains frustrating and stressful.  <\/p>\n<p>What happens in your brain when you try to get started while under stress? Elke explores this in more depth. She also talks about procrastination. You shouldn&#8217;t view this as a time management issue, but rather as a regulation issue.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProcrastination is an emergency brake for your stress system.\u201d Stress &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-podcast-episode-35"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohmypeople.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}