Tim Pychyl, Ph.D., is a recently retired university faculty at Carleton University, he spent his career researching and writing about procrastination. Although he has been away from this blog due to ...

Psychology says procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time issue, and in a study the fix was forgiving ...

Psychology suggests that people who leave their work until the last minute are not necessarily lazy. Their behavior may be ...

(CNN) -- You had every intention of starting that work report first thing Monday, but now, the deadline looms large. Sound familiar? You might have a problem with procrastination. "We procrastinate ...

A life without goals is like a sailor losing his bearings. We can all imagine that he'll end up steering his ship onto a reef. So having goals is something that gives a reason to live and brings ...