Stress affects us in different ways and at different times. One of the most common ways stress affects us is right before talking to your boss, when playing sports or before a speech.

We can take those feelings of anxiety and turn them into energy and focus.

Open-ended tasks are any tasks that don't have a definite endpoint. Activities like "studying", "working" or "tweaking" waste your time and cause procrastination. "I should really study" is open-ended because it does not have a specific to-do list to learn the material.

pro-cras-ti-na-tion |prəˌkrastəˈnāSHən|

The noun means the action of delaying or postponing something.

What most people don't get is that procrastination isn’t optional—it’s something they don’t know how to not do.

To understand why procrastinators p...