Always putting things off? There are many causes. Learn how to overcome 9 self-destructive procrastination styles, from perfectionism to thrill-seeking.

Stop procrastinating and do it now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Now. Procrastination doesn’t just delay progress — it ...

There are perceptions that engaging in a lifestyle of procrastination is useful and adaptive. In the past 30 plus years of research in my lab on procrastination, we just do not find it adaptive—sorry.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Procrastination affects many of us (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Can you only start a boring admin task once your house is clean? Do ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. I can’t remember the last time I did something before I absolutely had to. I don’t pay my bills until ...

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Can you only start a boring admin task once your house is clean? Do you leave the trickiest emails to the end of the day? Delaying a goal or task—usually to do something less important instead—is ...

I was sitting on my couch recently, staring at my phone with my computer open on my lap. A text popped up from a teenaged client struggling with anxiety. She wrote something to the effect of, “How do ...

Procrastination is an ugly concept. Not simply because I can attribute countless failures in my life to it, but because I hasten to accept the culturally pejorative nature that the term insinuates.

You squint at your computer screen and punch out a few more words on the keyboard. You lost your ability to write coherently a long time ago; now you’re just trying to reach the essay’s required word ...