Welcome to the weekend! No doubt your Saturday chore and errand list is a mile long. The car needs to be washed, lawn mowed, weeds pulled. It feels a little overwhelming — reading the newspaper might ...

Procrastination. As a partially reformed type-A personality, procrastination is the kind of thing that puts a frown on my face and a wrinkle – no, a FURROW – in my brow. What a waste of time, energy ...

Why is it so easy to queue up highbrow movies, buy weight loss gear, and clean our desks when a big project is due? It has to do with our "present bias," a root concept necessary for understanding the ...

Procrastination is very familiar to me. When I sit down at my desk to write, I suddenly find my desk drawers need to be reorganized. When I pull out a new recipe, I discover my pantry is so ...

In a hilarious TED talk by world-famous blogger Tim Urban, the procrastinating brain is explained using three squiggly characters: Rational Decision Maker, Instant Gratification Monkey, and Panic ...

Work we put off seems bigger than it really is, sort of like the green monster that hid under my bed when I was a kid. After the door shut, he got bigger and bigger until he was hanging over my head, ...

Oxymoron – a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. We are all familiar with common oxymorons: jumbo shrimp, boneless ribs, deafening silence or sweet sorrow, ...

You look at the clock: It's 4:30 P.M. Your workday is nearly over, but your to-do list is nowhere near done. You look at it in horror as you realize there are items that have been on it for weeks, but ...