Procrastination stems when the brain favors immediate comfort over future rewards. Kabir’s 15th-century verse reframes ...

Procrastination isn’t laziness. It is overwhelm, avoidance, and the human brain trying to dodge discomfort. With tiny steps, ...

Contrary to popular opinion, procrastination is a valid strategy that can help us access our motivation and our creativity.

Procrastinating can be a positive thing to do. Yes, you read that correctly. People who do it and judge themselves poorly will benefit by looking at how procrastinating helps them. That said, those ...

Just again in the media, and from a colleague, I heard “we are procrastinating more today than a couple of decades ago.” I could not disagree more. True, 2020 brought us a global pandemic and it ...

I think we can all agree that achieving a goal makes a person feel successful. I think we might all be in agreement that one compelling definition, an empirical definition, of success is achieving a ...

My annual physical was in July. My doctor gave me a requisition for blood work. It's almost October and I haven't done that yet. Is this procrastination? Typically, we think of procrastination as an ...

Do you have high standards? Do you expect a lot from yourself, day-in and day-out? Do you love it when life is organized and orderly? Do you try to do your best at everything you do? There is a word ...

Have an important task to complete? Behind on your deadlines? Stressed out because you know you might miss getting where you need to be on time? You are definitely not alone. Procrastination is a ...

While we often think of the negative consequences of procrastination, as I began to obsess over my own ever-growing to-do list, I decided to search for the upside of procrastination. Despite respect ...

I am working on this blog entry as a way of not doing other things that I should be doing - reading final papers, editing manuscripts, writing a letter of reference - at least that's what John Perry ...