Procrastination Articles
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- 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
In 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, Peter Bregman doesn’t offer a slew of strategies to accomplish all your activities per day. What he does offer is an ...
- 12 More Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
When you’re an entrepreneur, who inevitably wears many hats, managing your time can get tricky—especially when it’s ...
- 7 Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
Last month, we spoke with five incredibly successful bloggers and entrepreneurs who shared their secrets to getting ...
- 12 Ways Successful Bloggers, Entrepreneurs Stay Productive
Full-time bloggers and entrepreneurs have to juggle a wide range of responsibilities. At Psych Central, we wanted to know ...
- Getting Ready To Rejoin the Workforce
After six months on the job hunt following a layoff, you got so discouraged you gave up. Now the savings ...
- 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
Our society is obsessed with time -- or, more accurately, our lack thereof. Work takes up most of our time. (We regularly read that Americans work over 60 hours a week, and that's still considered ...
- 6 Ways to Get Organized and 5 More to Bust Through Procrastination
Getting organized takes effort. It can seem impossible if ...
- 12 Steps to Getting Everything Done in Your Day
How often have you wished for another hour in your day to complete or even start an essential ...
- 10 Traits of Highly Productive People
For many of us, productivity sounds like an intimidating word. Or it’s akin to catching a butterfly. You keep running after ...
- 10 Tips for Setting Successful Resolutions That Stick
We know what you're thinking: Here's another article that’s going to give me the same old tips for making and keeping ...
- End Procrastination Now! Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach
Ever put off an activity 'til another day — which turns into a few months? Wished you would’ve started earlier on a project only to procrastinate the next time around? Missed a deadline altogether because ...
- Getting Around To It: Causes and Cures for Student Procrastination
I had to laugh at myself. While thinking about doing an article on procrastination, I looked like a classic ...
- The Second Half of the Semester
Midterms are over and you are now confronted with the state of your grades. Maybe you did okay or even more than ...
- Tips for Getting Kids To Clean Their Rooms
It's a battle that is waged in millions of households across America every Saturday morning. Mom or Dad or ...
- Changepower! 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success
In Changepower! 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success, Meg Selig uses Prochaska and DiClemente’s Transtheoretical Stages of Change Model as a “springboard” for inspiring habit change. Selig breaks down each stage (Pre-Contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, ...
- The Skinny on Time Management: How To Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift
Time management is no doubt a universal topic. Especially in today’s productivity-focused society, most — if not all — people want to know the secret to managing their time more effectively. The Skinny on Time ...
- ADHD & Productivity: 12 Strategies for Getting Things Done
For someone with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), completing a task can be fraught with challenges. Distractions such as e-mail, Internet, TV and other tasks abound. People ...
- 10 Ways To Find New Motivation and Rise Above Roadblocks
How often do you lament, “If only I were more motivated, I could get so much done and ...
- Getting Around To It: Surviving and Embracing Procrastination
I had to laugh. Having set myself the task of writing an article about procrastination, I've done everything but. I wandered into the kitchen to make yet another cup of coffee that I'll probably abandon ...
- How To Keep Your Head in a Bad Economy
When a recession hits and then gains momentum, it’s natural to feel scared, helpless or hopeless, and these feelings can get the better of us. People who feel overwhelmed often try to cope by avoiding ...
- Spring Cleaning for the Soul: Tidying Up Our Personal Closet
In a recent psychodrama workshop I asked participants to visualize cleaning out their personal closet. One woman opened her imaginary closet door and began rummaging through make-believe clutter. When I asked what she ...
- Get Rid of Your Excuses: Three Minute Refutations
Three Minute Refutations are a part of Three Minute Therapy involve a powerful exercise to change your thinking. It serves as a supplement to the Three Minute Exercise. While the Three Minute Exercise (in ...
- Streamlining Your Life
People frequently complain about a lack of time. Is there a realistic way can we steal back precious hours for what we really want to do? Streamlining your life may be the answer. Call a ...
- What’s Your Time Perspective?
We are all time travelers: We draw on past memories, experience the present and look forward to future rewards. But how easily we travel back and forth makes a crucial difference to how well we ...
- Work Productivity
Do you feel your efforts at work are being ignored? Are you often overwhelmed by a long list of tasks and chores, unsure of where to start? If you could benefit from a new focus ...
