Procrastination can be a problem in our lives. It can hinder your ability to achieve the goals you set out for yourself. It can cause us to feel anxious if we wait until the last minute to work on an ...

Writer AJ Jacobs has come up with a counterintuitive approach to beating procrastination: embracing the discomfort. In the latest edition of his Experimental Living newsletter, AJ describes his ...

Which is why you put off firing an underperforming employee; while your neocortex realizes he’s dragging the rest of your team down, your limbic system hates the thought of confrontation. (Because ...

Virtually everyone has a mental list of those things they’ll get to “eventually.” It might be annoying chores, like vacuuming or organizing your leggings drawer. Or it might be bigger goals you have ...

Recent research shows 88% of workers procrastinate 60+ minutes daily on the job, which can ultimately cost the US economy an estimated $70 billion per year. It can personally cost us as well. A report ...

If you are a procrastinator, you are not alone. In fact some estimate, 88% of the workforce tends to procrastinate for at least an hour a day. Nikki Karnowski of Metamorphosis Coaching, Consulting, ...

All the way back in the 1930s, famed Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner developed a unified theory of procrastination. You may recall Skinner’s name from psychology 101. He was the guy who bribed rats ...

I'm always holding myself back by procrastinating. I don't mean to, but somehow things like the book I keep promising myself I'll write never get started. Why am I doing this? How can I change?

SLEEP PROCRASTINATION Why You Delay Bedtime and How to Fix It Sleep procrastination is becoming increasingly common in our ...

<br>Thanks to e-mail, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook, and countless other modern-day distractions, it's easier than ever to find excuses to not be getting work done. But procrastination leads to ...

Is there a simple and easy way to start making that critical self-change you’ve put off? Perhaps there is, but you’ll have to work at it. I’ll share a five-step staircase technique to combat ...

Persi Diaconis, a professor at Stanford, is one of the most important researchers on decision-making. Yet, when faced with the decision of moving with his entire family from Harvard to Stanford, he ...