Procrastination

Social scientists define procrastination as “delaying a task for a maladaptively long time,” and it bedevils almost all of us. One study found that more than 70 percent of university students procrast...

Holy God, we confess that we have been lukewarm about living our faith in Jesus each day. We put off to tomorrow what we know in our hearts you want to happen today. We go through the motions of relig...

Years ago I heard a motivational speaker encourage his audience to “eat that frog.” … it makes sense in its own way: Stop procrastinating and just do the thing you fear. Once you do that, everything e...

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That’s for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.