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The time has come for me to come clean with you all. I am an inveterate procrastinator. As a matter of fact, I was going to tell you this some time ago, but I kept putting it ...
According to my calculations, we’re in the middle of week eight, which means two things: that summer is right around the corner and that most students are finding themselves buried under all the ...
Hire a professional nagger. Knowing that the great art of procrastination is an all-too human trait, and also one that ends up costing millions in lost productivity each year, one woman decided to ...
But the effects of habitual delay can infect you at the physical level as well as the professional. Procrastination has been linked with headaches, digestive trouble, and colds or the flu, and a ...
These procrastination types aren’t specific diagnoses and aren’t backed by research, but “they are psychological types or reasons why someone might procrastinate,” said Yip, who is also a ...
As a professional procrastinator, I took a lot of time to craft a lengthy summary of the call. When my manager asked me about my low number of calls per day, I told him, “If one of my teammates ...
As a near-professional-level procrastinator, I can share that the struggle is real. What often helps is tying the activity or task to an outcome that is meaningful for you.
Full confession: Before 2020, I was a mild to moderate, chronic and miserable procrastinator. Most of my appointments — medical, vision, car maintenance, tree-trimming, gutter-cleaning ...
Being a professional writer has a few perks, like knowing when "i" comes before "e" and eavesdropping on strangers' conversations in the name of "research." But being a writer does not, unfortunately, ...