This article is 1500 words long and should take about 5 to 6 minutes to read. It’s all about the emotional side of procrastination and the common causes that create resistance even when you are keen to get up and get ahead.

“Ninety percent of the world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.” Sidney J Harris

Procrastination is an ever present specter when we seek to get important and difficult things done. Seemingly, at any moment a thought can pop into our heads to go off and do something more pleasurable instead. The problem is that they cost a lot of time and, if we indulge first in our pleasures instead of acting upon our good intentions, then we end up feeling guilty, irresponsible and drained by our fecklessness. This post explains just what is going on when the impulse to bunk off occurs.

It’s always nice to have a plan but since so many plans fail why do we keep creating more of them and why do they apparently bring a sense of relief?

“Good words cost no more than bad.” Thomas Fuller (a point on which I disagree, as this article attempts to demonstrate)