as overly optimistic(app)
self-control, lack of(app)
self-discipline, poor(app)
self-doubt(app)
self-handicapping(app)
Childhood origins of procrastination
assumptions about parental love
autonomy discouraged
family influences
lack of emotional connection to parents
over-involvement with parents
Children, as procrastinators
ADD considerations(see also Attention deficit disorder)
ineffective approaches
perceptions of time
techniques for parents
Choice points(app)
and ADD, ED
and excuses
Circadian rhythms
Clinging theme in family
Clock genes
Clown, as procrastinator
Clutter
Cognitive reappraisal
Collaboration
Commitments
phobias, avoidance of
public
unnecessary
Competition, as procrastination factor
Conscientiousness, low(app) (app)
Consequences of procrastination
for children
external
for others
internal
of timelessness
Consumer Reports magazine
Control exerted through procrastination
for autonomy
Cortisol
Covey, Stephen
Cozolino, Louis
Criticism, as ineffective approach
Cross-cultural pressures
alienation
career obstacles
culture shock
differences in time perceptions
influencing procrastination
inhibiting success
isolation
managed through social, family supports
self-doubt
sense of loss
See also Students, college, first-generation
Cultural pressures. See Cross-cultural pressures
Culture shock
Cycle of Procrastination
Dangers of improvement
Defense attorney metaphor
Delegation technique (app)
for ADD, ED
Dement, William
Dependency upon others and procrastination See also Clinging theme in family
Depression (app)
Disappointment in procrastinator
Distancing
Distractibility, as characteristic of procrastinators (app)(app)
Dread
activates amygdala in brain
articulation of
interrupted by sacred pause
Drucker, Peter
Dweck, Carol(app)
ED. See Executive dysfunction (ED)
Eifert, George
Einstein, Albert
Electronic addictions
Emotional clutter
Emotional intelligence
Emotional regulation
contextualization
as procrastination factor(app)
through feelings of well-being
Emotions, feelings
after accomplishing goals
avoided through procrastination
defensive patterns, suppression
neuroscience of emotions
as roots of procrastination
triggered by procrastination
Encouragement, as ineffective approach
Endorphins
Environmental stimuli
Excitement. See Risk, thrill through procrastination
Excuses for procrastination
and achieving goals
as choice points
converted into rewards (app)
and overcoming task aversiveness (app)
pre-planned
Executive dysfunction (ED)
differences among procrastinators
need for habitual structures, routines
and point of performance/avoidance help
and self-regulation(app)
See also Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
Exercise
Expectations(app)
based on past family experiences
of difficulties, unpleasant outcomes (app)
Factors likely to increase procrastination
expectations of difficulties(app)
low confidence(app)
self-regulation, lack of(app)
unpleasant process or distant rewards(app) (see also Task Aversiveness)
Failure, fear of
and avoiding competition
and commitment phobia
contrasted to fear of success
from Fixed Mindset
linked to procrastination (app)
Families’ influences
on children’s self-esteem
as clinging
as conditions for love
in cross-cultural contexts
as distractions
Families’ influences (continued)
from doubting messages
as parental distancing
past messages lead to pressures
rebelled against by procrastinators
as supportive, nonsupportive
through parental control
Fears
benefits of discussing
of commitment
confronting or facing
of failing(app)
of intimacy
of separation
of success
triggered by managing procrastination
unconscious
of workaholism
Fiore, Neil
Fixed Mindset
Flexibility, in approaching procrastinators
Forsyth, John
Freedom from Procrastination Code
Freud, Sigmund
Frustration cycle of dealing with procrastinators,
Future discounting(app)
Gender pressures
Goals
assessing accomplishment of
in behavioral terms (app)(app)
broken in small steps (app) (app)
and flexibility
following through
as minimally acceptable
as observable
as realistic(app)
selection of
as specific, concrete(app)
starting up(app)
See also Behavioral goals
Goleman, Daniel
Growth Mindset (app)
Hallowell, Ned
Hargrove, Michael
Heartmath
Hebb, Donald
Hoarding
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Lakein)
Identities of procrastinators
Immigrants’ cultural pressures
career obstacles
of first-generation college students
importance of social supports
isolation
self-doubt
sense of loss
of undocumented people
Implicit memory
Impulsiveness(app) (app)
Independence. See Autonomy, need to prove
Individuality, as an approach to procrastinators
Inhibition
as brain activity
linked to sense of time
as problem with ADD, ED
Integration of healthy body-mind systems
Intention-action gap, as correlated with procrastination(app)
Internet
for procrastinators’ support
used for avoidance behavior (app)
Intimacy, avoidance of
Irrational optimism(app)
Isolation
Journal or notebook writing
Jung, Carl
Kabat-Zinn, Jon
Kagan, Jerome
Kahneman, Daniel(app)
Kandel, Eric
Kant, Immanuel
Kindness, compassion
Kolodny, Susan
Lakein, Alan
Lay, Clarry
Learned industriousness process (app)
Left Shift
Lessig, Lawrence
Lists
Loss, sense of
Low confidence, as procrastination factor(app)
Maladaptive perfectionism (app)
Mature time
Memory
of family influences on self-esteem
implicit
need for point of performance reminders
Merzenich, Michael
Mindfulness
for nonjudgmental awareness
as regulating heart rhythm
as sacred pause
as stress-reducer
“Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction” (Kabat-Zinn)
Mindsets
and dealing with excuses
Fixed
Growth (app)
and selecting a realistic goal (app)
Miracle worker, as procrastinator
Mirror neurons
Models of success and failure
Motivations
intrinsic(app)
related to autonomy(app)
unconscious (app)(app)
Nagging, as ineffective approach
Neuroplasticity
Neuroscience and procrastination
and ability to tell time accurately
and benefits of exercise
differences among procrastinators
and emotional regulation
and inability to inhibit activity
influences of implicit memory
and language learning
and stages of change
See also Biologically-based conditions, states
Newton, Isaac
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Obstacles
career
working around or through (app)
O’Connor, Flannery
Oppositional/Defiant disorder
Optimism, of some procrastinators
irrational or overly optimistic (app)(app)
Organization
Oxytocin
Panic disorder
Parallel play
Perfectionism
adaptive-maladaptive distinguished (app)
and avoiding competition
and avoiding discomfort
catastrophic expectations of
and goal-setting,-achieving
maladaptive(app)
of parents and children
pressures within families
and reluctance to delegate
Personal growth
Planning
with help from others
overview
recording progress
using the un-schedule (fig)
Plastic paradox
Point of avoidance
Point of performance
Power, powerlessness, and procrastination
fantasy of omnipotence
time as oppressor or liberator
Prime time, personal
Prioritization technique
Prochaska, James
Procrastination cycle
Procrastination Research Group (app)
Procrastinators Anonymous
Procrastinator’s Code
Psychotherapy. See Therapy
Ratey, John
Rebellion, of procrastinators
and control or autonomy issues (app)
by denying values
as response to doubting families
Recording progress
Renaissance man, as procrastinator
Rescuing, as bailout for procrastinators
Retaliation or revenge
Rewards
for children
converted from excuses (app)
immediate compared to delayed (app)
for progress along the way (app)
to record progress
through socializing
unrealistic(app)
Ridicule
Risk, thrill, through procrastination
Roots of procrastination
Sacred pause
Sarton, May
Schwartz, Jeffrey
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Secrecy
Self-control
and inability to inhibit activity
and irrational optimism(app)
as limited resource(app)
Self-discipline, lack of(app)
Self-doubt(app)
Self-esteem
family influence on
low, procrastination high
and maladaptive perfectionism
Self-handicapping(app)
Self-monitoring
and ADD, ED
as executive function
as reviewing
verbal
See also Self-regulation
Self-regulation(app)
Self-regulatory failure(app)
See also Emotional regulation; Self-monitoring
Self-worth equation
measured by performance, ability
non-performance demonstrates ability
undone by Growth Mindset
Separation from others, fear of
Shame
about being in psychotherapy
as consequence of procrastination
as cross-cultural concept
as ineffective approach
and maladaptive perfectionism
Sleep disorders, deprivation, apnea (app)
Social contacts