Great Guides on How to Stop Procrastinating Now
Get more done now. Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Publié le 7 novembre 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.