procrastination
How to fight procrastination
Whatever you can do today can surely be put off
till the day after tomorrow as well … or
something like that. Who of us is not familiar
with that thought and especially where it
concerns something unpleasant, tedious or boring
or, to make matters worse, if there are a lot
more titillating alternatives begging for our
attention. Not a problem if it happens
occasionally, just as long as it does not get to
be the rule. On the other hand, there are people
with whom putting things off has become chronic
and in extreme cases manages to mess up their
entire life. The technical term for the tendency
to continuously postpone things is
procrastination; there are folks
who actually have to be treated with
psychotherapy because they just can’t manage to
begin or complete their tasks on time. In those
cases writing a dissertation can take years…
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