Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. You have ambition and drive, but you find yourself stalling ...

Here’s how to overcome self-criticism, fear of failure and the need for perfection. Imagine Benny, a recently hired software engineer who grapples with persistent self-doubt about his capacity to ...

It’s an average Wednesday afternoon—arguably my least favorite day of the week. I find myself staring at the laptop screen, rotating between my empty Google doc, half-written emails, and multiple ...

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 ...

We define procrastination as not doing what needs to be done when we know we need to do it. But you already knew that, right? It feels to college students (and many of the rest of us) like a world of ...

Humans are by nature rational animals. Our ability to reason is supposedly what sets us apart from other animals, so it seems we ought to be incredibly reasonable, basing each action on deliberation ...

You may have already been criticized for some of your behaviors: your tendency to procrastinate, your apparent disorder or your pronounced taste for solitude. But did you know that these character ...

Just again in the media, and from a colleague, I heard “we are procrastinating more today than a couple of decades ago.” I could not disagree more. True, 2020 brought us a global pandemic and it ...

Revenge bedtime procrastination is a phenomenon in which individuals deliberately delay sleep to engage in activities they feel they do not have time for during the day. The glow of his phone screen ...