The Power of the Tiny Tidy

Is tidying and cleaning a form of procrastination? It certainly can be. If you’re spending hours of your day, dusting, picking up bits of fluff off the carpet and scrubbing floors, then yes. You’ve got a bad case of procrastacleaning. Put simply, you’re avoiding living. As professor (and expert on procrastination) Tim Pychyl says: “Procrastination […]

The art of taming negative emotions: 10 ways to feel better

Are you struggling to get work done at home? Find yourself procrastinating? Before you start googling ‘Time management techniques’, consider this . . . According to Associate Professor Tim Pychyl, procrastination isn’t a time management issue. It’s actually an emotion management issue. This means if you can get a better handle on your emotions, in […]

Deactivate your amygdala to combat procrastination

Do you have trouble getting started with your work? Do you have a tendency to leave your work until the last minute? New research shows that your amygdala and emotions may be part of the problem. In a recently published study, Caroline Schluter and her colleagues at Ruhr University found that people who have a […]

The paradox of the pause: How stopping regularly helps you get more done

In pre-internet days, it was much easier to focus and complete your work. If you were struggling, you couldn’t escape to the worlds of Facebook, YouTube and Netflix for instant relief. How do I know? Because I was born before 1985. I know what it feels like to be a student with and without the […]