Timothy Pychyl

Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Initiatives in Education at Carleton University.

Timothy A. Pychyl, PhD, has published several scholarly articles on the topic of procrastination to improve the academic community. He has centered his research and teaching career on learning about the pattern of procrastination and how it can be changed. He is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and the Director of the Centre for Initiatives in Education. Today, he is dedicated to helping students learn how they can overcome procrastination to achieve their goals and find success.

Timothy has received many awards, including Canada’s prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship, during his academic career. He is also a regular blogger for Psychology Today.

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Solving the Procrastination Puzzle

A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change

by Timothy A. Pychyl

EVERYBODY procrastinates. And this "concise guide" by Timothy Pychl, Ph.D.--one of the world's leading procrastination experts--helps us solve the procrastination puzzle. Big Ideas we explore include IF ... THEN (<-- huge!), Just getting started (vs. Just doing it), the horror of "It will just take a minute," why multitasking is a myth, and why it's best to be nice to yourself when you stumble.