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iProcrastinate Podcast

Dr. Timothy A. Pychyl, associate professor of psychology and director of the Procrastination Research Group (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada), provides a series of short talks, interviews and ques... Read more

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

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

Some reflections on what to do when you don't feel like doing what you know you should be doing. Want to learn more abou... Read more

8 Jan 2016

40mins

Ranked #2

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20 Tips to Reduce Procrastination

20 Tips to Reduce Procrastination

Let's start the new year right with 20 tips to help us reduce procrastination. In this interview with Angela Baker (Mass... Read more

17 Jan 2013

1hr 11mins

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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

An interview with the psychologist Dr. Frédérick Dionne about Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. Frédérick references ... Read more

2 Mar 2016

53mins

Ranked #4

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Unnecessary illusions and the truth about procrastination

Unnecessary illusions and the truth about procrastination

Illusions abound about procrastination. This week, I consider 10 of the most common illusions, explaining why we might t... Read more

29 Sep 2011

1hr 13mins

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Personality and Procrastination Part 2: The Five Factor Model of Traits predicts procrastination

Personality and Procrastination Part 2: The Five Factor Model of Traits predicts procrastination

In this podcast, we extend the "colour wheel" metaphor with the Five Factor Model of personality ("the big five") and br... Read more

7 Feb 2006

11mins

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Self-Control Strategies: Change the motivational strength of goals and temptations

Self-Control Strategies: Change the motivational strength of goals and temptations

Strengthening our motivation towards our goals while weakening our motivation towards temptations is important to succes... Read more

2 Dec 2010

27mins

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Anxiety and procrastination: An interview with Dr. Bill Knaus

Anxiety and procrastination: An interview with Dr. Bill Knaus

This week, the focus is on a topic that many listeners have asked to learn more about - anxiety. Dr. Bill Knaus brings h... Read more

8 Feb 2010

50mins

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Time Management and procrastination: How not to carpe diem!

Time Management and procrastination: How not to carpe diem!

This week, we consider how even apparently good intentions like making a schedule can contribute to procrastination. We ... Read more

1 Mar 2006

11mins

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Fear of Failure

Fear of Failure

This week, we review a recent study on fear of failure and procrastination. Mohsen Haghbin, a senior doctoral student in... Read more

27 Aug 2010

53mins

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Self-control strategies: Triggers, chutes, ladders and other ways to scaffold our success

Self-control strategies: Triggers, chutes, ladders and other ways to scaffold our success

In this fascinating interview, Dr. Joel Anderson (Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and the Netherlands Institute for... Read more

22 Jan 2011

1hr 15mins

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Implementation Intentions: A key strategy for successful goal pursuit

Implementation Intentions: A key strategy for successful goal pursuit

When I'm asked for strategies for more successful goal pursuit, I usually begin with the notion of implementation intent... Read more

24 Aug 2009

37mins

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Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination Part I: Dealing with Avoidance

Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination Part I: Dealing with Avoidance

This is the first in a three-part podcast where we begin to discuss strategies for overcoming procrastination. The conte... Read more

22 May 2006

20mins

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Mindfulness, emotion-regulation and procrastination

Mindfulness, emotion-regulation and procrastination

Dr. Fuschia Sirois (Bishops University) joined me to discuss one of her recent studies entitled, "Lost in the Moment: An... Read more

4 Feb 2011

56mins

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Self-regulation: Goal setting & attention (tips to reduce procrastination)

Self-regulation: Goal setting & attention (tips to reduce procrastination)

In order to understand procrastination, a form of self-regulation failure, we need to consider successful self-regulatio... Read more

3 Aug 2009

28mins

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Key strategies to procrastinate less

Key strategies to procrastinate less

Looking for an overview of how to stop procrastinating? Got an hour? In this podcast, Dr. Pychyl walks through the major... Read more

6 Dec 2012

55mins

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Self-Regulation in Instant Messaging

Self-Regulation in Instant Messaging

My title for the podcast today is taken from a recent study published in the International Journal of e-Collaboration by... Read more

27 May 2011

1hr

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Irrational thoughts and the power of reason

Irrational thoughts and the power of reason

Clinical psychologist Dr. Bill Knaus and philosopher Dr. Elliot Cohen explain how we can more effectively deal with the ... Read more

22 Feb 2011

1hr 13mins

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Strengthening goal intentions

Strengthening goal intentions

Tips and techniques are never enough. What we often need to do to enhance goal pursuit success is to ensure that our goa... Read more

15 Feb 2010

26mins

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The Positive Side of Planning: Why a time management approach might work

The Positive Side of Planning: Why a time management approach might work

Although I argued in the last podcast that procrastinators are not "broken" and that buying a daytimer or creating a sc... Read more

14 Mar 2006

13mins

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The Procrastinator's Guide to Getting Things Done

The Procrastinator's Guide to Getting Things Done

A short podcast this week about a new book,  The Procrastinator's Guide to Getting Things Done (by Dr. Monica Rameriz Ba... Read more

3 May 2010

15mins

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