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Procrastination: What It Is and What We Can Do About It

    This is the 4 th time I have tried to start this blog.   I have been distracted by the washing up, texting my mum, scrolling on Instagram…… and so the list goes on.   The definition of procrastination is “unnecessarily and voluntarily putting off tasks despite the consequences.”   The potential consequence in my case is not posting my blog on time which is something that is important to me.   So why does this happen.   I enjoy researching, I enjoy writing and I enjoy the satisfaction I feel when I finally get to post what I have written.   It’s a curiosity.   For many years we believed that procrastination was all about time management and this seemed to make sense.   We often think we have more time than we have, which means we often understand procrastination in the context of time management. Why do something now when we have time to do it later. But what we are now beginning to understand about procrastination is that it...