Sometimes with all of the buzzing, dinging, ringing, and beeping of all the separate devices in your life you can feel like you are living within a video arcade with hundreds of overactive pinball machines. Your phone jingles whenever you get a text message, your laptop dings when a new email arrives, and your Facebook, Twitter, and other social media websites also join in the buzzing chaos. We have gotten in the habit of checking these notifications every few minutes, no matter if they are important or not. It can be incredibly difficult to focus when you are constantly being distracted by a … [Read more...]
What Are You Waiting For? Effective Cures for Procrastination
Is your motto, “why do today what I can put off until tomorrow?” Procrastination is an easy habit to slip into, as it is incredibly tempting to avoid doing something that is not urgent. When a project is due, the house needs cleaning, or a form needs filling out, we often decide that we will get away with doing it another day. However, procrastination can really come back to bite us when the deadline looms near and we realize that we have left way too much work for ourselves. Every college student who has gotten in trouble for snoring in class after pulling an all-nighter finishing … [Read more...]