Great Guides on How to Stop Procrastinating Now
Get more done now. Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Published on November 7, 2019
The Procrastination Doom Loop—and How to Break It
When I woke up this morning, I had one goal: Finish this article by 11 a.m. So, predictably, by the time it was 10 a.m., I had made and consumed two cups of coffee, taken out the trash, cleaned my room while taking a deliberately slow approach to fol
“To tell the chronic procrastinator to ‘just do it’ would be like saying to a clinically depressed person, ‘cheer up,’” says Joseph Ferrari, a psychology professor at DePaul University. To avoid putting off tasks, you need to learn how procrastination is more about mood than time management.
Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About it Now
Jane B. Burka, PhDGet It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day
Sam BennettThe Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing, or, Getting Things Done by Putting Them Off
The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing, or, Getting Things Done by Putting Them Off
John PerryWhy We Procrastinate: We think of our future selves as strangers.
The British philosopher Derek Parfit espoused a severely reductionist view of personal identity in his seminal book, Reasons and Persons: It does not exist, at least not in the way we usually consider it. We humans, Parfit argued, are not a consisten
An even trippier psychological explanation for procrastination is that, when you make deadlines, you treat your future self as a stranger. You’ve made a promise with someone else, and therefore its consequences don’t really dawn on you until, perhaps, too late. Learning how to better interact with your future self is the unexpected self-care tip you need to embrace.