Procrastination

Student Learning Commons Resources

• Procrastination Workshop - Provides strategies to help you stop procrastinating.
• 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).

External Resources

• Procrastination self-assessment (Oregon State University) - Contains a six-item checklist to help you determine whether procrastination is a problem for you; also has links to tips.
• Procrastination (University of North Carolina) - Lists several anti-procrastination strategies, including common myths about procrastination and advice for challenging these myths.
• Procrastination: A Bug that Bites All Students (Athabasca University) - Lists 5 simple strategies for dealing with the problem.
• Controlling Procrastination (University of Guelph) - Lists five more strategies.
• Procrastination and Theses/ Dissertations (American Psychological Association) - An article with several practical strategies for making progress on these large projects.
• Procrastination Research Group (Carleton University) - A wealth of information, including a "self-help" section.
• iprocrastinate Podcasts (Carleton University) - Audio recordnings by the Procrastination Research Group.
• Don't Delay (Psychology Today) - Blog by the head of the Procrastination Research Group.
• 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.