An interview with Mr. Bhavin Prajapati who discusses "getting stuck" with his M.A. thesis and the journey he took to both understand why he was procrastinating and what to do about it. You might be interested in reading a post that Bhavin wrote

ADHD , Executive Functions & Procrastination: An interesting new study

Jun 20th, 2018 49m 6s

An interview with Scott Taylor who completed his undergraduate honours thesis at Carleton University. Scott studied the relations between ADHD, Executive Function and procrastination. His research is the most recent and the most rigorous study

Ending the Procrastination Habit

Nov 8th, 2017 51m 9s

An interview with a first-year college student who went from procrastinator in high school to a productive, A+ student in college. Listen to how this happened. To learn more about procrastination and our research, see procrastination.ca The clo

Perfectionistic Concerns, Perfectionistic Strivings: There's an important difference

Mar 31st, 2017 48m 18s

An interview with Dr. Fuschia Sirois (University of Sheffield) about her recently published meta-analysis relating perfectionism to procrastination. Fuschia sets the record straight by summarizing the research literature which shows how perfect

Waiting for the Right Place and Right Time

Feb 1st, 2017 1h 4m

An interview with Shane Littrell of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga about his procrastination research. Shane helps us understand the complex interplay of person and situation that influence our procrastination. To learn more, see pr

"Facebocrastination?" - Procrastination and Facebook

Aug 17th, 2016 59m 7s

An interview with Adrian Meier (Department of Communications, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany) about the predictors of using Facebook for procrastination and its effects on students' well-being. Here's a blog post on this topic, a

Active Procrastination: Clarifying the Concept

Jul 15th, 2016 45m 56s

A chat with Shamarukh Chowdhury about her research on active procrastination. Together, we clarify the concept of procrastination and do a little "myth busting" around the concept of active procrastination; a concept that we call an oxymoron th

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Mar 2nd, 2016 53m 33s

An interview with the psychologist Dr. Frédérick Dionne about Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. Frédérick references the following website for more information: Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.Want to learn more about procrastinat

I don't feel like it! I don't want to!

Jan 8th, 2016 40m 59s

Some reflections on what to do when you don't feel like doing what you know you should be doing.Want to learn more about procrastination? procrastination.caThe closing song is by singer, songwriter Matt Weidinger - check him out at mattweidin

Not All Delay is Procrastination

Sep 10th, 2015 1h 15m

An interview with Mohsen Haghbin about his doctoral research that defined six types of delay, only two of which are procrastination. This is an important new series of studies that help us conceptualize delay in our lives.Want to learn more ab

Procrastination and Media Use as Escapism

Aug 19th, 2015 1h 9m

An interview with Sarah Kohler (University of Muenster, Germany) on media use, escapism and procrastination. Sarah presents the results of one of her studies and explains how media provides escape in our lives. She argues that some of this esca

Imagine your future self

Jun 17th, 2015 1h 4m

An interview with Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon (Carleton University) about her research on how imagining future self through guided meditation can decrease procrastination.Want to learn more about procrastination? procrastination.caThe closing song

Procrastinators can still get to heaven

May 21st, 2015 1h 5m

An interview with Dr. Clarry Lay (Emeritus, York University) author of Procrastinators (and Others) Can Still Get to Heaven: A Guide to Directed Everyday Living. We discuss the importance of goals, identifying prescribed behaviors to meet these

Cleaning to Procrastinate

May 6th, 2015 50m 36s

Do you ever clean the house, a desk, your garage, whatever instead of doing a more important task? You're not alone. One of our latest research projects helps us understand why we make this choice.Want to learn more about procrastination? proc

Progress Not Perfection

Nov 13th, 2014 1h 18m

Progress Not Perfection (PNP) is the name of a podcast hosted by Alen Standish. PNP is an audio podcast where Alen talks with others about perfectionism, procrastination, shame, anxiety and self-judgement as they try to overcome challenges such

Future Self

Sep 24th, 2014 38m 55s

Procrastinating today means more work later. Ah, but that's future self's problem, right? Oops, future self is still me, and that's one reason why we consider procrastination a self-defeating strategy. In this episode, I interview Eve-Marie Blo

Commit to Win

Aug 16th, 2014 1h 2m

Commit to Win is the title of Dr. Heidi Reeder's new book, where she explains how to harness the four elements of commitment to reach our goals. In this podcast, Heidi summarizes key points from her research.Heidi is an associate professor in

Bedtime Procrastination

Jul 9th, 2014 1h 4m

An interview with Dr. Joel Anderson, philosopher, researcher and lecturer Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. Joel explains the research that has come out of the Utrecht research group - Promoting Effective Intentions: Volitional Scaffoldi

Mindfulness, Meditation Resources and Procrastination

May 27th, 2014 1h 5m

Meditation and procrastination? Ah, maybe tomorrow you say. When you do get a minute, check out this conversation with Tony Stubblebine from lift.do. Tony and his team have added new free resources on how to meditate at lift.do/meditation. We

A Year of Productivity

Jan 29th, 2014 1h 20m

Can you imagine experimenting for a year on how to be most productive? Well, Christopher Bailey is doing just that with his ayearofproductivity.com project. Chris contacted me to talk about procrastination. He agreed to make the interview into

The Power of Habit: An Interview with Charles Duhigg

Jan 22nd, 2014 29m 47s

A short interview with the New York Times journalist and author, Charles Duhigg, about habits and procrastination. As in his book, Charles distills a wealth of information about habits based on the latest research in this brief discussion. Char

The A+ Club: Helping kids to set and meet their own learning goals

Jan 15th, 2014

An interview with Michael Bromley from school4schools.com He designed and runs the A+ club where tutors encourage students to reflect on their responsibilities, needs and goals, and then the tutors help them stay on track and get it done. The

To-Do Lists: The Power and Peril of a Plan

Dec 19th, 2013 52m 31s

Advantages, disadvantages and "best practices" for to-do lists. I use one constantly. It's not a cure-all for procrastination or for making goal pursuit more successful, but this simple tool is worth talking about. It's worth trying if you have

Fine-tuning an Implementation Intention

Nov 10th, 2013 39m 17s

Learn why making implementation intentions within specific events is more effective. Incredible, but true, I've finally returned to the microphone. In this episode, I explain how I beat my own potential procrastination today and got this podcas

A Procrastination Workshop

Jun 24th, 2013 1h 7m

Here's an interview with Jeffrey Robinson from Student Learning Serrvices at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Jeffrey provides thoughtful reflections on how he helps students develop their own sense of agency and reduce procrastination.