Procrastination

It's honestly about the choices and decisions.

Procrastinated decisions are what create clutter.

Like, think about it.

Every pile in your house is a stack of decisions you put off.

Like, it's so cute and it's so nice and tidy when it has a little label to it.

Procrastinator.

Procrastinator.

Right.

At the end of the Drain series, I told you I had a hot one coming about procrastination.

who procrastinate report significantly lower retirement satisfaction and describe themselves as being in worse health.

And then in a study titled Procrastination, Present-Based Preferences and Financial Behaviors, Jeffrey Brown and Alessandro Prevotero found that people who waited until the very last day to sign up for the health plan were also less likely to sign up for their retirement plan and took longer to do it when they eventually got around to it and contributed less money to the account.

The bottom line for me is that when I look back at some of my biggest financial mistakes, they came down to procrastination and maybe what you could call its cousin, disorganization.

So one of the best things I did for my finances and my career and my home life and my marriage is work to become more organized and more productive.

So the first one was in the Western world.

The term was first used in a 2014 scientific paper called Bedtime Procrastination, Introducing a New Area of Procrastination, published by Dutch behavioral scientists in the Netherlands.

I do like that paper title.

It sort of implies like, oh my God, you guys... new procrastination type disrupt so that study showed that procrastination may also lead to harmful outcomes in the area of health behavior and introduces bedtime procrastination as an important factor related to getting insufficient sleep consequently affecting individual well-being bedtime procrastination was also negatively associated with self-regulation people who scored lower on self-regulation variables reported more bedtime procrastination Now, around a similar time over in China, the term revenge bedtime procrastination was sort of popping up on Chinese social media networks.

I'm pretty sure I have some... air quotes form of adhd but i i don't require medication but i'm sure i but also when i forget anything i'm like oh there's my adhd it's just like a a tagline

yeah because i do a lot of those things and i don't think i have adhd and um you know forgetfulness is not a on its own is not adhd Procrastination on its own is not ADHD, but you get a whole bunch of things together.

I don't know a relative close to me.

I almost slipped and revealed who it was.

who procrastinate report significantly lower retirement satisfaction and describe themselves as being in worse health.

And then in a study titled Procrastination, Present-Based Preferences and Financial Behaviors, Jeffrey Brown and Alessandro Prevotero found that people who waited until the very last day to sign up for the health plan were also less likely to sign up for their retirement plan and took longer to do it when they eventually got around to it and contributed less money to the account.

The bottom line for me is that when I look back at some of my biggest financial mistakes, they came down to procrastination and maybe what you could call its cousin, disorganization.

So one of the best things I did for my finances and my career and my home life and my marriage is work to become more organized and more productive.

Doesn't that look inviting? Thanks for watching AIM Northwest this morning.

Procrastination is a plague that we have to fight to get things done.

Here to tell us how science can help us procrastinate less, we welcome back the author of Human Lie Detection and Body Language 101, Vanessa Van Edwards.

Post on Facebook.

Oh, people will hold you accountable.

How's that garage looking? Exactly.

Everyone, I'm cleaning my garage this weekend and I'm going to post pictures when I'm done on Monday.

And I shouldn't be on Facebook.

And I knew nothing about it.

And I read book number one and book number one, which was called Procrastination.

taught me that I was desperately in need of this kind of help and work and perspective on time.

And then I realized after teaching that first workshop that it's something that you can You can implement these things and changes and philosophies and paper planners and things like that to really fix all the gaps, the things that people didn't happen to teach you or you didn't pick up.

Now, let me just give the boring little bio and then you add to that whatever you want to add.

And I know that we could do a three-hour bio on you, but the brief is Dr. Fuchsia Sirawa is a psychologist and internationally recognized researcher specializing in procrastination.

Did you hear that, folks? Procrastination, self-regulation, motivation.

stress and wellbeing.

She's a professor of social and health psychology at Durham University in the UK, a million other things, but we'll leave it for there.

And so, yeah, we can kind of alter how we think and kind of show up.

All right, let's talk about your book.

So the prof, Professor Fuchsia, has written a book called Procrastination, what is it? She's written a few books.