Have you noticed that the urge to procrastinate is like that rock in your shoe? The urge to procrastinate is always there, but when you focus on what you want to do it’s less noticeable. When you are completing activities you value, you are less likely to focus on the urge to procrastinate even though it is still there.

Once you have accepted that you are addicted to delay and you have committed to honoring your values instead of fighting the urge to procrastinate, then you can attack procrastination and win if using the following recommendations for addressing your needs.

One way to address your procrastinating is to focus on your values and to reframe the tasks you’re putting off in terms of what’s important to you.  For example, if you don’t value cleaning house (who does?),  you will struggle to find the motivation to do it, and you’ll tend to put this task off….

In the case of procrastination, acceptance involves recognizing and agreeing that you are addicted to delay.  Acceptance involves looking at the urge to procrastinate without judgment. By itself, the urge to procrastinate is neither bad nor good: it is just a response that happens because our brain is trying to protect us from dangerous and/or…

Dr. Davenport enjoyed the opportunity to appear on WFAA TV in Dallas to talk about why we procrastinate and how to stop it. He said that his time “on air” was fun but went by really fast. Here’s what he else he would have said had he had the time.