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 […]
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 […]
