“Our expectations and standards tend to climb as our goals become accomplished.”—Dr. John Demartini
Unbelievably, in 2002 the IRS received $473 million in overpayments, thanks to last-minute taxpayers making unnecessary errors in their paperwork.
That’s about $400 for each American tax-paying procrastinator, according to Piers Steel, associate professor of human resources and organizational dynamics at the University of Calgary and author of the upcoming book “The Procrastination Equation.”
“People procrastinate when they’re not confident that they can complete a project, when they find it boring or distasteful and when they’re impulsive,” says Professor Steel, who calls himself a ‘reformed procrastinator.’
Not surprisingly, the #1 productivity, opportunity and success squelcher is on the rise.
“It’s so easy to be distracted in the days of technology; you check emails, play video games, and read everything on the Internet. What started out to be a three minute break turns into a three hour pleasure trip on the web!”
So if I do it, you do it and so do the psychologists you pay to help you stop doing it, WHY is this kill-joy behavior so popular?
