Everyone has and no one admits
Humans are a strange lot. Everyone has moments where we don’t what to do what we need to do, so we put it off, schedule it for the future, but when that time happens, we put it off again; we procrastinate. At the same time we delude ourselves into believing we are the only person being lazy and feel embarrassed about our lack of productivity. We hide it and make excuses for our laziness. We often expend more mental energy and stress to engage in procrastination than we would have if we simply did the task.

Procrastination is one of those strange conditions which actively hides itself from the conscious mind and resists being “cured.” Untreated, procrastination can block career advancement, torpedo your romantic relationships and makes progress 10 times harder. In 1973, an estimated 5% of the adult human population suffered from chronic levels of procrastination. In 2019, it rose to 26%. Take a moment to digest that. If you know 4 people, one of them is procrastinating at a pathological level, where they could benefit from regular visits to a psychologist. And most of these folk can’t even acknowledge it as a problem to themselves. Still feel alone?