Brain tricks to help you stop procrastinating

If you're putting off starting your diet, organizing your finances or tackling a big task at work, procrastination could cost you in the long run. Authors Sebastian Bailey and Octavius Black give CBS News' Parvati Shallow some tips to help you break the procrastination habit and reach your goals.

[amitgalor]

I'm watching youtube videos instead of studying for the past 4 hours. Now this one pops up...

[Redrunner]

I'm even procrastinating to even finishing this video and start checking my other tabs that's open, Oh God..

[GuineaPigEveryday]

But increasing the cost does not make it suddenly easier to do? In fact it raises the stakes so much, so much pressure and disastrous consequences, for example if you need to finish your paper or thesis, that the costs are so high you stress so much you worry about getting it wrong, not having enough time to do it properly cuz you wasted so much time, so much you still have to get done. That you don’t do it.

[RobertWilliams-mkpl]

Having your gas or electricity turned off because your too lazy to do invoices for work that you've already done. (Once, I had friend do my invoices and I thought I had about $3, 000.00 coming to me. He pointed out that it was more than $11, 000.00) He put the invoices on a flash drive for me that I carried around for months...while being broke. That's a little painful. Suppose you have an off the charts high pain threshold?😮

[ShayKMBR]

"Give me a couple hundred dollars"
Stop. No. Doing it RIGHT Now.