Are You A Member Of The Procrastination Nation?

By Perry Rearick, Chief Editor, Follow Your Buyer

I’m Perry and I’m a procrastinator. I tend to over think my actions, especially work-related activities. I go too deep on the “what if” questions, with quality in mind, but it is often unnecessary and leads to delays.

Procrastination may be a bigger than usual problem this year and this month, because it is a leap year—February has an extra day in 2024. This may cause some of us to think we have more time to get all those tasks and projects complete.

Procrastination is not laziness!

According to workplace counter-procrastinator, Julia Martins, “procrastination is a form of time-inconsistency, the unconscious preference for immediate gratification over potential future rewards.”

Julia offers the following tips for overcoming procrastination:

1. Connect work to goals.
2. Clarify priorities.
3. Use goals to fight perfectionism.
4. Break big initiatives into smaller tasks.
5. Capture every to-do.
6. Set deadlines.