Sonia Jhas is a speaker, author, and coach who helps clients set and achieve New Year's resolutions. She says the first step in reaching your goals is not relying on your future self to handle it.

We have a natural tendency to distract ourselves from important or difficult tasks. So, how can we recognize our triggers and overcome procrastination? Negative emotions, like self-doubt, anxiety, ...

Recent research shows 88% of workers procrastinate 60+ minutes daily on the job, which can ultimately cost the US economy an estimated $70 billion per year. It can personally cost us as well. A report ...

Procrastination can be a problem in our lives. It can hinder your ability to achieve the goals you set out for yourself. It can cause us to feel anxious if we wait until the last minute to work on an ...

Procrastination is a near-universal experience that most of us can relate to all too well. Whether it’s putting off a work task, delaying that important phone call, or avoiding the start of a project ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This article tackles procrastination, framed as "fake productivity," by offering five ChatGPT prompts to boost real output. It ...

Are you trapped in a job that fails to ignite your passion? Do you frequently fantasize about a career change but consistently relegate it to the background? Procrastination often becomes 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 ...

Most productivity apps quietly log your bad habits without actually changing them. I focus here on tools that interrupt procrastination in real time, forcing decisions, reshaping routines, and ...

Key points Procrastination is less about avoiding a task than avoiding the negative emotions associated with that task. Procrastination is rooted not in laziness, but in perfectionism, anxiety, or ...