NYC Personal Growth & Life Coaching Lab

This is a 30-minute, focused mini-workshop designed to help you understand why you procrastinate — and how to interrupt the cycle without relying on willpower, pressure, or motivation.

Procrastination isn’t laziness or poor discipline. It’s a learned response to emotional friction, unclear tasks, and perceived cost. When the brain senses discomfort, it delays to get short-term relief — and over time, that delay becomes automatic.

In this session, Certified Life Coach Aiden Murtagh (Sensei Aodhán) walks you through a simple, psychology-backed framework that breaks procrastination down into its core components: trigger, discomfort, avoidance, and relief — and shows you where real change actually happens.

You’ll:

• Learn what procrastination is (and what it isn’t)
• Identify the specific moments where you tend to get stuck
• Run a quick personal “procrastination audit”
• Learn how to interrupt the cycle in a realistic, repeatable way

You’ll leave with one clear adjustment you can apply immediately — and a simple structure you can reuse whenever procrastination starts creeping back in.

Short, practical, and grounded in real life.
No hype. No over-planning. Just tools that work.
30 minutes. Free. Online.

Hosted by Aiden Murtagh — Certified Life Coach, Jay Shetty School of Coaching graduate, and creator of the Yes Sensei method.

This is a 30-minute, free focused mini-workshop designed to help you understand how focus actually works — what happens in the mind when you try to concentrate, and why attention so often starts to drift in real life.

Focus isn’t just about trying harder. It’s a clear, stable mental state where thinking feels organized rather than foggy or scattered, and where attention can stay with one task long enough to create meaningful progress.

In this session, Certified Life Coach Aiden Murtagh (Sensei Aodhán) walks you through a simple, psychology-grounded framework that explains the focus cycle — how attention typically moves from task choice, to initial strain, to settling, to fatigue, and then either breaks or re-engages.

From there, we look at the most common in-the-moment focus disruptors — like unclear tasks, mentally heavy work, too many open loops, and frequent context switching — and what actually helps when each one shows up.

If focus continues to slip even when you address those factors, we’ll zoom out to what that usually points to: system-level issues such as background stress, low mental energy, overcommitment, or perfectionism. These aren’t focus problems — they’re capacity problems — and they require a different kind of response.

You’ll:

• Learn what focus is (and what it isn’t)
• Understand the focus cycle and how attention naturally rises and falls
• Identify the main factor interfering with your focus right now
• Choose one simple, realistic adjustment to test this week

This workshop is part of a short reset series focused on clarity, habits, focus, and momentum for 2026.

You’ll leave with one clear adjustment you can apply immediately — and a practical structure you can reuse whenever focus starts to drift.
Short, practical, and grounded in real life.

No hype. Just tools that work.

30 minutes. Free. Online.

Hosted by Aiden Murtagh — Certified Life Coach, Jay Shetty School of Coaching graduate, and creator of the Yes Sensei method.

A focused 30-minute, free guided working session to help you get clear, stop drifting, and choose one meaningful direction for your next year.

This is a structured session (not a discussion or networking event). You’ll spend time reflecting, scoring, and writing — and leave with a clear goal and concrete next steps.

Hosted by Certified Life Coach Aiden Murtagh.

• When it comes to goals, most people repeat the same patterns — unclear goal setting, scattered energy, and motivation that fades fast.
• In this session, Life & Mindset Coach Aiden Murtagh (Sensei Aodhán) guides you through a simple, psychology-backed process to cut through the noise and identify what actually matters next.
• You’ll leave with one clear goal and a concrete next step you can act on immediately — a repeatable reset you can use every year.

Chronic Procrastination: Why You Keep Getting Stuck
A Small-Group Deep Dive with Aiden Murtagh (Sensei Aodhán)

Format
• 90-minute live online workshop
• Optional group coaching discussion (20–30 minutes) afterwards for those who wish to stay
• Limited to 10 participants

If you find yourself procrastinating across multiple areas of life — even when the tasks matter to you — this session is designed to help you understand why the pattern keeps repeating and how to begin interrupting it.
Procrastination is not laziness.

Over time, it becomes a learned response to emotional friction and short-term relief, making delay increasingly automatic.

While the 30-minute introductory workshop explains the mechanics of the procrastination cycle, this small-group deep dive focuses on why the cycle becomes chronic and what actually keeps it running over time.

In this 90-minute workshop, we will:
• Revisit the procrastination cycle and how it becomes reinforced
• Explore different types of discomfort — fear, boredom, overwhelm, and uncertainty — and how they lead to avoidance
• Examine system-level factors that make procrastination more likely, including stress, anxiety, low mental energy, perfectionism, cognitive overload, and difficulty sustaining focus
• Map your personal procrastination patterns, habits, and triggers
• Introduce practical ways to begin interrupting the cycle

Short guided workshop exercises are included throughout so you can apply the material privately to your own situation.

You will leave with:
• Greater clarity on why your procrastination persists
• Insight into the emotional and energy patterns sustaining it
• A simple diagnostic framework you can apply when the urge to procrastinate appears
• Practical ways to begin interrupting chronic delay

This is not a motivational talk. It is a structured, psychology-grounded session focused on understanding persistent procrastination patterns.

Meetup Member Rate: $25

Whether you have attended our free procrastination workshop or are joining for the first time, this session is designed for those who want to better understand persistent patterns of procrastination and begin moving beyond them.