Have you ever crammed for an exam or written an essay at the very last minute? Cramming can very easily become a bad habit. Let me explain. When you procrastinate and leave your work until the night before it’s due, adrenaline and motivation kicks in. This allows you to work with crazy energy and intense […]
Try to imagine the nastiest, most disgusting online troll that exists. Here’s what comes to mind . . . I see a middle aged man hunched over a keyboard. He’s wearing a freshly pressed shirt his mother has just ironed. His belly is spilling over his pants. He’s toxic. He’s a bully. He’s totally destructive. […]
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 […]
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 […]
