iProcrastinate Podcast
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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 question/answer podcasts that explain why we procrastinate and what we can do about it. An award winnin...
Recent Episodes
136 episodesAcademic Procrastination: A Graduate Student's Story
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 procra...
ADHD , Executive Functions & Procrastination: An interesting new study
An interview with Scott Taylor who completed his undergraduate honours thesis at Carleton University. Scott studied the relations between ADHD, Execut...
Ending the Procrastination Habit
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...
Perfectionistic Concerns, Perfectionistic Strivings: There's an important difference
An interview with Dr. Fuschia Sirois (University of Sheffield) about her recently published meta-analysis relating perfectionism to procrastination. F...
Waiting for the Right Place and Right Time
An interview with Shane Littrell of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga about his procrastination research. Shane helps us understand the compl...
"Facebocrastination?" - Procrastination and Facebook
An interview with Adrian Meier (Department of Communications, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany) about the predictors of using Facebook fo...
Active Procrastination: Clarifying the Concept
A chat with Shamarukh Chowdhury about her research on active procrastination. Together, we clarify the concept of procrastination and do a little "myt...
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
An interview with the psychologist Dr. Frédérick Dionne about Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. Frédérick references the following website for more inf...
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 about procrastination? procr...
Not All Delay is Procrastination
An interview with Mohsen Haghbin about his doctoral research that defined six types of delay, only two of which are procrastination. This is an import...
Procrastination and Media Use as Escapism
An interview with Sarah Kohler (University of Muenster, Germany) on media use, escapism and procrastination. Sarah presents the results of one of her...
Imagine your future self
An interview with Eve-Marie Blouin-Hudon (Carleton University) about her research on how imagining future self through guided meditation can decrease...
Procrastinators can still get to heaven
An interview with Dr. Clarry Lay (Emeritus, York University) author of Procrastinators (and Others) Can Still Get to Heaven: A Guide to Directed Every...
Cleaning to Procrastinate
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 projec...
Progress Not Perfection
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 perfectioni...
Future Self
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...
Commit to Win
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 th...
Bedtime Procrastination
An interview with Dr. Joel Anderson, philosopher, researcher and lecturer Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. Joel explains the research that has...
Mindfulness, Meditation Resources and Procrastination
Meditation and procrastination? Ah, maybe tomorrow you say. When you do get a minute, check out this conversation with Tony Stubblebine from lift.do. ...
A Year of Productivity
Can you imagine experimenting for a year on how to be most productive? Well, Christopher Bailey is doing just that with his ayearofproductivity.com pr...
The Power of Habit: An Interview with Charles Duhigg
A short interview with the New York Times journalist and author, Charles Duhigg, about habits and procrastination. As in his book, Charles distills a...
The A+ Club: Helping kids to set and meet their own learning goals
An interview with Michael Bromley from school4schools.com He designed and runs the A+ club where tutors encourage students to reflect on their respon...
To-Do Lists: The Power and Peril of a Plan
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 pursu...
Fine-tuning an Implementation Intention
Learn why making implementation intentions within specific events is more effective. Incredible, but true, I've finally returned to the microphone. In...
A Procrastination Workshop
Here's an interview with Jeffrey Robinson from Student Learning Serrvices at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Jeffrey provides thoughtful refl...
Need a Lift? Don't we all?
"Build better habits. Change your life" - This is the motto on the homepage for Lift. Lift is a new tool (online and as an app) that helps you to deve...
Q&A Procrastination & Happiness
Dr. Pychyl is interviewed by podcaster and blogger, Evan Brand of notjustpaleo.com. Evan reaches out to health experts, entrepeneurs and doctors about...
A Graduate Student beats her Procrastination Challenge
Anxiety, inertia, boredom . . . a graduate student provides insight into her challenges and her successful strategies for staying focused and getting...
Self-Compassion, Stress and Procrastination
An interview with Dr. Fuschia Sirois about how self-compassion plays a role in the relation between procrastination and stress. Self-compassion involv...
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 (Massey University, New Zealand), w...
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 factors related to our procra...
The Willpower Instinct
An interview with award-winning professor and best-selling author Dr. Kelly McGonigal. In this interview, Dr. McGonigal explains her teaching and writ...
Fear, competence & autonomy in the prediction of procrastination
An interview with Mohsen Haghbin (Carleton University) about his most recent publication relating fear of failure and procrastination. I had interview...
Backsliding and Weakness of Will
An interview with Dr. Alfred Mele, the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, and author of Backsli...
The Art & Science of Personal Productivity
An interview with Max Leibman author of Higher Process: The Art & Science of Personal Productivity. Max helps us consider what we really know about th...
Changepower!
ChangePower! - 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success - that's the title to Meg Selig's new book, and in this podcast I interview Meg to learn how we can...
Computers and Procrastination: The Peril and the Promise
"There seems to be something about computer technology and Internet connectivity that distracts us, that tempts us towards procrastination." This is t...
Procrastination, thinking & aging
Dr. William (Bill) McCown discusses his latest research projects - each is fascinating. Bill is a researcher, clinical psychologist and university adm...
Turn it "bright side up!"
Bright Side Up is the title of a new book by Amy Spencer. In this podcast, I interview Amy who explains that you don't need to reinvent your whole lif...
Getting started in 2012
Procrastinating? Me too. Today, I talk about the "art of living" and how we're like all other people, some other people and no other person. I do this...