Timothy Pychyl, a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, calls procrastination a coping mechanism gone awry in which people “give in to feel good.”
When you feel tempted to procrastinate, the best thing you can do is to remember that you don’t have to be in the mood to do the task, Pychyl says. What you have to do is ignore how you feel and get started.
We read about procrastination in an article in the May 21, 2016, issue of The Dallas Morning News.