Forgive yourself for procrastinating

Do you ever put things off? Paying the bills, calling a friend, planning a holiday – anything at all. Do you ever avoid what has to be done, even though oftentimes it’s even harder to tackle things later?
Well here is a cure for all of us who do: practice forgiving.
Forgive who? Ourselves.

After conducting a research on students – before, during and after exams, Michael Wohl concluded that ’by realising that procrastination was a transgression against the self and letting go of negative affect associated with the transgression via self-forgiveness, the student is able to constructively approach studying for the next exam’.

More on why and how forgiving works here.