How to Defeat Your Procrastination in Two Steps

<p>Everyone procrastinates now and then. Every single one of us.</p> <p>Our productivity-obsessed, optimization-oriented hustle culture can make us all feel like shirkers if we&rsquo;re not sifting the gold dust out of every minute of existence. But most of us aren&rsquo;t layabouts, and our procrastination &ldquo;issues&rdquo; are more to do with overly harsh self-criticisms than a failure to TCOB.</p> <p>That said, if you frequently put off important, time-sensitive tasks and your life is noticeably poorer for it, then yes, that&rsquo;s a problem worth addressing.</p> <p>&ldquo;Procrastination is the voluntary delay of an intended act despite expecting to be worse off,&rdquo; says Tim Pychyl, PhD, a procrastination researcher and psychologist at Carleton University in Canada. By definition, there is no &ldquo;good&rdquo; form of procrastination, he says. &ldquo;It is self-defeating and has no upside.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@mheidj/how-to-defeat-your-procrastination-in-two-steps-839271653161"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>