How to Win the Emotional Battle of Procrastination

Manage your emotions, not your time

Manage your emotions, not your time.

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Procrastination is the absence of progress.

Everyone makes New Year’s resolutions. But only 8% of will succeed. The rest will get caught in the gap between intention and action.

Procrastination is the illusion of a quick-win — you compromise long-term success for short-term pleasure. If you are reading this, you probably spend too much time daydreaming — you fail to launch.

Most people can’t overcome procrastination because they treat it as a productivity problem — they forget the real battleground is in your mind, not your calendar.

Procrastination has nothing to do with time-management. As Joseph Ferrari, a professor of psychology at DePaul University explains, “To tell the chronic procrastinator to just do it would be like saying to a clinically depressed person, cheer up.”

What if you approach procrastination as an emotional battle rather than a productivity one?

Why We Fail to Launch

We all procrastinate — we volunt…