Will Baum, LCSW

This time, a long New Yorker article reviewing The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination.

This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn’t make people happy. In one study, sixty-five per cent of students surveyed before they started working on a term paper said they would like to avoid procrastinating: they knew both that they wouldn’t do the work on time and that the delay would make them unhappy.

I post links to potentially helpful worksheets at Therapy Worksheets. Here’s a find from there that warranted double-posting:  A set of free workbooks from the Centre for Clinical Intervention, a CBT-based program in Western Australia.  Available there as of today:

• Back from the Bluez – Coping with Depression
• Keeping Your Balance – Coping with Bipolar Disorder
• Shy No Longer – Coping with Social Anxiety
• Panic Stations – Coping with Panic Attacks
• What? Me Worry!?! – Mastering Anxiety
• Improving Self-Esteem
• Put Off Procrastinating!
• Assert Yourself!
• Perfectionism in Perspective
• Overcoming Disordered Eating

Worth a look.