How to avoid the cost of procrastination

Until I started looking into this, I did not realise that procrastination was such a fertile field of study for so many people and that there were so many types of procrastinators procrastinating in so many ways.

Dealing in concrete facts rather than abstractions may help. Sean McCrea, an assistant professor of motivational and social psychology at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and an international group of psychologists, examined how we think about our tasks and our tendency to postpone them.