Dealing with Procrastination

Procrastination can be considered to be a process involving acts and patterns. "Procrastination acts" are random and inconsistent, specific to particular aspects only. You postpone returning a library book until after it's overdue.

You finished the book. But you don't want to go out of your way to return it on time. This is an isolated occurrence since you typically promptly return what you borrow.

On the contrary procrastination patterns are predictable and consistent habitual delays that are not situation specific, but follow an identifiable sequence.

This kind of a sequence involves an initial feeling of discomfort about a task and then aimlessly moving to another task which perhaps might be irrelevant.

Program Sessions

Session 1: Introduction

Session 2: A Scientific approach to overcome Procrastination

Session 3: Behavioral Manifestation of Procrastination

Session 4: Overcoming Procrastination using Rebt

Session 5: Challenging Procrastination Excuses

Session 6: Behavioral Techniques to overcome Procrastination

Session 7: Keeping up with Progress

References

• Understanding Procrastination — Chrisoula Andreou, 260 S. Central Campus Dr. Philosophy Department, OSH 345 University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
• When do you procrastinate? Sleep quality and social sleep lag jointly predict self-regulatory failure at work — Jana Kuhnel, Ronald Bledow, Nicolas Feuerhahn.
• The relationship between procrastination, delay of gratification — Falak Zehra Mohsin, Nadia Ayub.
• The anxiety-specific hippocampus-prefrontal cortex pathways links to procrastination through self-control — Rong Zhang, Zhiyi Chen, Bowen Hu, Feng Zhou, Tingyong Feng.
• Academic Procrastination: Psychological Antecedents Revisited — Piers Steel, Katrin B Klingsieck.