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A Gentle Push to Overcome Procrastination

Have you ever wanted to begin a long-term project, such as managing your weight, writing a book, or using a financial budget? If “Yes”, I presume that you may need some help to take the next step, action. In this blog, I offer you a gentle push to get started. In their book, A Guide […]

WRITTEN BY: Joseph Maiorano, PhD, Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Harrison County Extension, maiorano.2@osu.edu

REVIEWED BY: Amanda Woods, Healthy Finances Program Specialist, OSU Extension Family & Consumer Sciences, woods.485@osu.edu

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • https://pixabay.com/en/stretching-sports-woman-athlete-498256/

REFERENCES:

  • Ellis, A. E. & Harper, R. A. (1997). A Guide to Rational Living. Chartsworth, CA: Wilkshire Book Company.
  • Rozental, A., Forsell, E, Svensson, A., Andersson, G. & Carlbring, P. (2017) Overcoming procrastination: One-year follow-up and predictors of change in a randomized controlled trial of Internet-based cognitive behavior therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 46:3, 177-195.

To Wait or Not to Wait?

Do you ever find yourself waiting until the last possible minute to complete a task that needs done?  Do you find yourself inviting people over for a party so that you have a reason to clean?  Do you find it hard to say “no”? Do you have too many things on your “to do” list? […]

WRITTEN BY: Jami Dellifield, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State Extension, Hardin County

REVIEWED BY: Cheryl Barber Spires, Program Specialist, Ohio State University Extension, Northwest Region

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • https://pixabay.com/en/business-career-depressed-employee-19156/

SOURCES:

  • http://www.columbia.edu/itc/gs/study/readings/PROCRAS.htm
  • http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/procrastinate
  • https://www.princeton.edu/mcgraw/library/for-students/avoiding-procrastination/procrastination.pdf
  • http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/procrastination/
  • http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/procrastination.html

REFERENCES:

  • Burka, Jane B. and Lenora M. Yuen. Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., 2008, 1983. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8yU9nhq8C0C&lpg=PR7&ots=GGF-VGoO1y&dq=Procrastination%2C%20authors%20Burka%20%26%20Yuen&lr&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q=Procrastination,%20authors%20Burka%20&%20Yuen&f=false

Procrastination = Pain in the Purse

Note to self: It doesn’t pay to put off replacing things because you want to wait until they actually break or go bad. You might justify to yourself that you are trying to get every last ounce of usefulness out of an object before you replace it, but that gamble sometimes comes back to bite […]

WRITTEN BY: Donna Green, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, Erie County

REVIEWED BY: Melissa Welker, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, Fulton County

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • www.flickr.com

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