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General resources on procrastination
Procrastination
Covers results and reasons for procrastination, as well as 3 key strategies for stopping.
Goal Setting & Accountability
Helps you set, and follow up, on goals so that you will actually follow through with them!
Study With Me video (Beedie School of Business) - This video takes you through a 2-hour Pomodoro study session with a virtual companion.
Why Do We Procrastinate? (Video, Sci Show) - Gets into neuropsychological, social psychological, and evolutionary explanations of procrastination, and touches on a few strategies to curtail this tendency.
The Little Book of Procrastination Remedies
Why people procrastinate and solutions for overcoming procrastination.
Procrastination Solutions: Ten Strategies for Combating Procrastination (Oregon State University)
Controlling Procrastination (University of Guelph)
Lists more strategies.
Strategies to avoid procrastination
Procrastination Workshop
Provides additional strategies to help you stop procrastinating.
Procrastination Avoidance Made Practical (Video, McMaster University) - Outdated in its examples, but gives some valuable strategies for managing procrastination such as watching your self-talk, recognizing your usual "procrastination activities," and employing the "5-minute technique" to get started.
Winning through Wedging (McMaster University) - Goes into additional detail about the "5-minute technique" mentioned in the video above, "Procrastination Avoidance Made Practical".
The Science of Procrastination - And How to Manage it [Video, ASAP Science]
Covers the Pomodoro technique, among others.
Perfectionism and procrastination
Perfectionism
Helps you figure out if you are a perfectionist and gives you strategies to stop being one.
Perfectionism: A Double-Edged Sword (University of Texas at Austin)
Perfectionism is one of the major causes of procrastination. If this is your problem, read about the costs of perfectionism, the difference between perfectionists and healthy strivers, and detailed information about what you can do about it. Don't try all the strategies at once, though - as perfectionists are inclined to do - start with just one or two!
Perfectionism (University of Dundee)
Additional information about a major cause of procrastination.
Perfectionism in Writing (Queen's University)
An extremely comprehensive resource for those whose perfectionism hampers their ability to write, or their ability to submit what they write.
Online procrastination
Distance Education: Strategies for Time Management
Distance Education offers the opportunity to take procrastination to new heights! Find out how to avoid this temptation.
Time Management for Distance Education Podcast
Get audio and visual information on scheduling, procrastination, and other issues. Developed, in cooperation with the Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), specifically with the SFU Distance student in mind (17 minutes).
Compulsive Video Gaming
What is gaming addiction and how to overcome it.
FocalFilter
A tool for blocking distracting websites.