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5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination

Harvard Business

To answer these questions, I spoke to researchers, and spent time digging through dozens of academic journal articles. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. How can we overcome it, preferably without hating ourselves or the techniques we use in the process? Why we procrastinate. Srini Pillay.

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. You’re hardly alone.

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