Here, you will find a selection of guides about how to deal with specific types of procrastination, such as student procrastination, workplace procrastination, and bedtime procrastination. These guides will help you understand why people, including you, procrastinate in various situations, and show you what you can do to reduce and overcome procrastination in those situations.
Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily postponing decisions or actions. For example, if someone postpones an assignment until right before its deadline, despite the fact that they intended to work on it earlier, that person is procrastinating. A procrastination cycle is a pattern of behavior that people repeatedly go through when they delay unnecessarily, and especially one where procrastinating for …
Chronic procrastination is the long-term tendency to unnecessarily postpone decisions or actions. It is associated with various causes, such as anxiety and fear of failure, and can lead to various issues, such as increased stress and worse financial outcomes. Because chronic procrastination is a prevalent and serious problem, it’s important to understand it. As such, in the following article you …
Sleep procrastination is a phenomenon where people unnecessarily delay going to sleep, especially when they know that doing so is bad for them. For example, someone who wants to go to sleep but instead lays in bed and browses social media on their phone for hours is engaging in sleep procrastination. Sleep procrastination is a widespread phenomenon, with serious negative …
Bedtime procrastination is a phenomenon where people unnecessarily delay going to bed, especially when they know that doing so is bad for them. For example, a person is engaging in bedtime procrastination if they go to bed an hour later than they intended, because they wasted time browsing the internet, playing video games, or watching TV, even though they didn’t …
Workplace procrastination is a phenomenon where people unnecessarily postpone dealing with work-related tasks. This phenomenon is prevalent, and can lead to serious issues both for the people who procrastinate, as well as for their employers. This article contains a comprehensive and practical overview of workplace procrastination. Specifically, it first provides relevant examples, details, and statistics about this issue. Then, it …
Student procrastination is a widespread and serious problem, which affects students at all levels. It’s also a complicated problem, since different students procrastinate for different reasons, and they can therefore benefit from different solutions when it comes to overcoming their procrastination. The following article provides a comprehensive and practical guide to the problem of student procrastination. Its goals are to …
Procrastinating on your homework involves delaying getting started on assignments or finishing them, for no good reason. Such procrastination can take various forms, from wasting hours trying to bring yourself to start writing an essay, to putting off an important project until right before the deadline. This is a problem not only because it can harm your performance at school, …