pro·cras·ti·nate(prō-krās'tə-nāt', prə-)

v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates

v. intr. To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.

v. tr. To postpone or delay needlessly.

I cannot truthfully say that I'm not a procrastinator.  I find many reasons to put things off needlessly, and likely, so do you.  Most everyone procrastinates some, for some reason, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't do us any good in the end. The keyword here is needlessly, as we needn't put things off.

So if procrastination is by definition needless, why do we do so?  On one level or another, it serves us psychologically to do so.  The thing to remember is that psychology, not physiology, is by definition what's keeping us from doing something important.

Sometimes the cure to procrastination is a simple kick in the butt; however, more often, the roots are somewhat deeper, and we need to design better strategies to deal with our inner time management problems.

Here's a quick set of tips for how to stop procrastinating on a small scale.  In the coming days, I'll be organizing more information on the 43 folders system, but for now, would like to leave you with some thinking material.

If procrastination serves a psychological need, what is that need?  It's entirely possible that the reason you're procrastinating is because you aren't getting what you need out of life.

To heavily plagerize "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", there are 4 basic needs domains that we must fulfil: Physical, Social, Mental and Spiritual.  If we neglect any of them, we end up feeling like something is wrong, even missing from our lives.  To extend this to procrastination, the reason you're procrastinating could have absolutely nothing to do with the thing itself, but more that you're feeling incomplete due to deficiency in other areas.

Part of talking about Time Management isn't just talking about how to get more done, but how to get more important things done.  Important doesn't necessarily mean something that's productive in a 'traditional' sense, but can also be something that helps you achieve better fulfilment from life; which in turn, raises your productivity.

The problem is that we often do many important things in one area of life, and many non-important things in other areas, leading to an imbalance.  Correcting this imbalance is a matter of reorganizing your priorities.  Instead of simply trying to get more done, try to get more IMPORTANT things done, not just at work, but at home, in your spare time, and in your spiritual/religious time.