Though people have struggled with procrastination since the beginning of time, the digital age has altered the nature of the procrastination beast. Distractions abound. Diversions call. Entertainment ...

Procrastination is best understood as an emotion-focused coping strategy. We use task avoidance to escape the negative emotions associated with a task (e.g., frustration, boredom, stress, anxiety). As ...

Procrastination is typically seen as a negative trait. If you’re meeting a deadline, working toward a degree or pursuing a difficult goal, procrastination will delay getting you there. Be honest with ...

In the commonly held view of procrastination, I failed to appropriately manage my time. Or maybe I was just lazy, unmotivated, distracted, or all of the above. But new research on the psychology of ...

Well congratulations, experts have confirmed that procrastinators are not lazy. They simply need to understand their reasoning behind procrastination in order to manage it. “A lot of people believe ...

In the modern world, the pursuit of a well-deserved break from the daily grind has led to a peculiar phenomenon known as sleep revenge procrastination. Coined by the National Sleep Foundation, this ...

It seems that over the past 40 years interest by the media and by other scholars increased in understanding procrastination. Unfortunately, folks still characterize it as laziness, poor time ...

There is no doubt that procrastination is a shallow grave in which life-changing opportunities are buried. Procrastination is the lack of taking action. We often prefer to do something else rather ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Procrastination strikes everyone, and once it gets ahold of you, it can be very difficult to shake it off. When you imagine a highly ...