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Procrastination is an ugly concept. Not simply because I can attribute countless failures in my life to it, but because I hasten to accept the culturally pejorative nature that the term insinuates.

Most productivity apps quietly log your bad habits without actually changing them. I focus here on tools that interrupt procrastination in real time, forcing decisions, reshaping routines, and ...

Procrastination is a huge barrier to getting daily things done as well as performing at high levels. This impediment surfaces in different ways, such as hesitating, holding back, and getting involved ...

Most of us put things off every now and then. If procrastination is becoming a real problem for you, your emotions may need some work. You’re up late the day working on an assignment you absolutely ...

At some point, I must do something about my procrastination habit,” is a thought I’ve had at periodic intervals, before deciding to do something else instead. It was last year that I first began to ...

You squint at your computer screen and punch out a few more words on the keyboard. You lost your ability to write coherently a long time ago; now you’re just trying to reach the essay’s required word ...

More than 80 percent of college students procrastinate when working on their assignments. But there are tips on dealing with the unproductive habit. Procrastination is often synonymous with laziness ...

Can you only start a boring admin task once your house is clean? Do you leave the trickiest emails to the end of the day? Delaying a goal or task — usually to do something less important instead — is ...

My only resolution this year was to get all of my client's invoices and insurance forms to them on time. I started off well. On January 1 I did all of the billing for December, printed out all of the ...