Don't Delay

Understanding procrastination and how to achieve our goals.

Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he specializes in the study of procrastination. See full bio

May 24, 2008, Procrastination

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Procrastination is . . .

By Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D. on May 24, 2008 in Don't Delay

Have you ever procrastinated? Of course you have. So, you've got to watch this YouTube Video - Procrastination. It will make you smile. It will make you think.

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Procrastination is...

Submitted by Jeannine on September 8, 2008 - 8:18am.

Wow! This is a wonderfully made video, and it really hits home. I love the tea part. I do that all the time. Unfortunately, I am procrastinating right now. I need to start a project, but I decided to make a cup of tea first. Then I checked my e-mail. Then I decided to look for inspiration here and found the video. I guess the coffin is inspiration enough. Off to work...

Infinite Media on the Internet

Submitted by Anonymous on October 21, 2009 - 8:46pm.

Maybe it will also be useful to take into account more convenient ways of procrastination.
with the internet era people have become addicted to unlimited media and information .

unlimited on demand tv shows (which i find to be more addictive and procrastinating than individual movies), blogs/news feeds, infinite reading lists and surfing and browsing. including spending time looking for information and once you find it jumping to another topic.

this gives easy distraction and takes out one of the traditional checks of procrastination - an end to the alternate distracting activity the person was doing and forcing the person to get to the actual task at hand... now that distractions never end..