Not in the mood. Not feeling it. Spring or summer fever, then winter blues. There’s always something more interesting to do. These are just a few of the ways you may find yourself putting work ...

Procrastination is something many of us grapple with, often without realizing how deeply it affects our lives. If you find yourself continually delaying important tasks, you might be a chronic ...

Most of us have experienced it: a deadline approaches, the task is perfectly doable, yet instead of starting, we suddenly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the ever-changing workforce and leadership. The definition of procrastination, according to Merriam-Webster, is to ...

Can you only start a boring admin task once your house is clean? Do you leave the trickiest emails to the end of the day? Delaying a goal or task—usually to do something less important instead—is ...

Productive procrastination involves tricking the brain into thinking that you are doing lots of work Here’s what it means and ...

The worst procrastinators probably won’t be able to read this story. It’ll remind them of what they’re trying to avoid, psychologist Piers Steel says. Maybe they’re dragging their feet going to the ...

It happens to the best of us. An assignment gets pushed from one day’s to-do list to the next. A household chore gets shuffled down the agenda. A phone call gets bumped to a “more convenient time.” ...

I hate procrastination. And I don’t mean, like how I hate unbranded baked beans or cauliflower. I mean a serious level of proper hate. Procrastination is an absolute killer. It sucks meaning out of ...

Procrastination happens when you don’t feel motivated to complete a task, so you continue pushing it back for as long as possible. You may come up with excuses to wait on getting started. While ...