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If you're dragging your feet on doing your taxes, it's time to get started on them now. According to a recent MasterCard survey, 10 percent of taxpayers are planning on filing in April. Why put off the inevitable? Here are a couple of tips to help you get started. Fill out the simple details. Take a deep breath and just start. Filling out details like your name and address isn't so hard, right? Read more
Some people may wonder why procrastination advice seems to never work for them and if there is a deeper issue at hand. Well, for 20 percent of the population who are chronic procrastinators, it is a serious problem that needs to be addressed, according to Joseph Ferrari, a psychology professor at DePaul University and a leading expert in the study of procrastination. For those 20 percent, Read more
If the holiday season does little to help your motivation at work (parties! family! food!), today's website of the day could provide a much-needed boost. Shut Up and Get to Work provides simple, helpful, hilarious words to motivate you. From the sincere, "Everyone's already forgotten your last success. Time for a new one," to the blunt, "Stop being a crybaby, it's annoying." It's simple, but it's Read more
Productivity: sometimes you have it, sometimes you don’t. Most of you agree that you’re productive in bursts, but what happens during your unproductive days (or weeks, or, gulp, months)? Chances are, your job doesn’t afford you the luxury of checking out and sprawling on the couch with a book when an unmotivated day strikes, so we’ve all got to fight procrastination somehow. My approach Read more
Just in time for the tail end of National Procrastination Week comes a website that helps you do good while . . . not doing much of anything else. Well, nothing else productive, at least. ProcrasDonate is a site that combines online procrastinating with donating to a worthy cause. To see how the site works, just read more Read more
Some people are planners, but others leave everything to the last minute. I'm a planner; always have been and I'll probably always be one, which comes in handy during the holiday shopping season. According to Glamour magazine, 23 percent of women polled said they shop for gifts a month in advance, but six percent admitted to waiting until the day of to get their gifts purchased, wrapped and Read more
Managing our time seems to be getting harder and harder with age, but sometimes having all the time in the world could be irrelevant if you're a procrastinator. When it comes to getting things done, I tend to take care of the little things first; like my dry cleaning and grocery shopping. It's the important things like getting my car serviced or going to the dentist that tend to fall by the Read more
Do you ever find yourself surfing the net and then look up at the clock and wonder where all the time has gone? The Firefox extension MeeTimer allows you to keep track of the sites you've visited and for how long. It's actually very useful because you can group websites into activities (procrastination sites vs communication sites) so you will know exactly how your time is being divvied up. Read more
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We've all been there-- stuck in the pit of procrastination. And the last thing we need when we're there is an annoying little know-it-all to remind us of how unproductive we've been all this time. Enter Stewie. Read more
