Okay, so there’s only one thing you told yourself you have to do today. It’s already afternoon and you haven’t made a lick of progress on it. You’ve done all sorts of other things. You’ve even been ...

Below, Jon Acuff shares five key insights from his new book, Procrastination Proof: Never Get Stuck Again. Acuff is a New York Times bestselling author of 12 books. He was named one of Inc.’s Top 100 ...

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 ...

Q: I feel like I perform better when I’m facing a tight deadline, but the stress of waiting until the last minute is taking a toll. How do I move past this? It sounds like you’re experiencing the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an online discussion on procrastination, psychotherapist Marco Sander offered his insight into why you may find yourself ...

Are you troubled by things like this?・Even though you think, "I'll do it early," you always end up starting at the very last ...

People on average spend 55 days per year procrastinating, and 40% of adults say procrastinating causes them to lose money. Procrastination also costs businesses money, as 86% of workers confess to ...

Set your “future self” up for success by removing productivity obstacles. By Jancee Dunn Is there a more postponable task than getting a Real ID driver’s license? I know I have to do it. I’ve made ...

Acuff is a New York Times bestselling author of 12 books. He was named one of Inc.’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers, and has delivered keynotes to companies such as Microsoft, Walmart, and Comedy Central ...

Have you ever sat down to work on a report, or your resume, or a speech you've been asked to give, and then realized it would be much less stressful to check the sports scores or play solitaire or ...