Procrastination is one of those habits we all recognize in ourselves, yet somehow excuse. We complain about how busy we are. We commiserate with colleagues about overloaded schedules. We answer emails ...

<br>Thanks to e-mail, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook, and countless other modern-day distractions, it's easier than ever to find excuses to not be getting work done. But procrastination leads to ...

Persi Diaconis, a professor at Stanford, is one of the most important researchers on decision-making. Yet, when faced with the decision of moving with his entire family from Harvard to Stanford, he ...

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Writer AJ Jacobs has come up with a counterintuitive approach to beating procrastination: embracing the discomfort. In the latest edition of his Experimental Living newsletter, AJ describes his ...

Procrastination silently sabotages your opportunities to learn to operate at higher levels of effectiveness. Preventing learning procrastination may be among your most important self-help improvement ...

Delaying, postponing, deferring, stalling, whatever you call it, 78% of workers procrastinate. People on average spend 55 days per year procrastinating, and 40% of adults say procrastinating causes ...

All the way back in the 1930s, famed Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner developed a unified theory of procrastination. You may recall Skinner’s name from psychology 101. He was the guy who bribed rats ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the ever-changing workforce and leadership. The definition of procrastination, according to Merriam-Webster, is to ...

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Lavendaire shares strategies for overcoming procrastination and improving productivity.