Humans are by nature rational animals. Our ability to reason is supposedly what sets us apart from other animals, so it seems we ought to be incredibly reasonable, basing each action on deliberation ...

Perhaps you are the kind of person that always waits until deadline to hand in a report. You might tend to put off a difficult conversation or be reluctant to start a piece of work because you don’t ...

Procrastination refers to the avoidance of any task or its deferral to a later, often unspecified, time. For example, you may well know that you need to pay your tax bill or mail your passport ...

Call it, "procrastivity," or engaging in activities that amount to procrastination. After it gripped one Southland graduate student so tight that she ignored a looming deadline, she decided to turn ...

London - A fortnight ago I hauled four bulging carrier bags up to my loft and tipped tens of thousands of receipts, invoices and phone bills all over the floorboards. I stood amidst the flotsam of ...

There is nothing quite like the sensation of soaring blood pressure and sleep deprivation that college students get in the last two weeks of the semester. While most of us — and I won’t claim all, ...

I logged onto the Internet to look for information on procrastinating and found dozens of fascinating sites, including one I bookmarked that sells great used hiking gear and another that features an ...

It seems that no one is immune to the tendency to procrastinate. When someone asked Ernest Hemingway how to write a novel, his response was “First you defrost the refrigerator.” But putting off tasks ...

Procrastination comes in many disguises. We might resolve to tackle a task, but find endless reasons to defer it. We might prioritize things we can readily tick off our to-do list—answering emails, ...

The big project you ve got on your desk is due on Thursday. And so far today, you ve managed to get a lot done. You ve cleaned your middle drawer, checked e-mails, faxed an order you should have sent ...