Of course, this is no way to live, something has to change. Here are the main reasons why:

1) It’s unpleasant. Panic isn’t fun for anyone. And the too much time in the Dark Playground could be spent with a well-earned leisure with a schedule instead.

2) The pr...

The Instant Gratification Monkey is the last creature who should be in charge of decisions—he thinks only about the present, ignoring lessons from the past and disregarding the future altogether, and he concerns himself entirely with maximizing the ease and pleasure of t...

In the monkey world, he's got it all! He eats when he's hungry, sleeps when tired and doesn't try anything difficult, making him a successful Instant Gratification Monkey.

The problem for the procrastinator is that he happens to live in the human world, making the Instant ...

It’s a mess! The Procrastinator plays but doesn't have fun because it’s completely unearned and the air is filled with guilt, anxiety, self-hatred, and dread.

Sometimes the Rational Decision-Maker puts his foot down and refuses to let you waste time doing normal leisure...

As it turns out, there’s one thing that scares the shit out of the Instant Gratification Monkey.

The red thing here is The Panic Monster, he's dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up when a deadline gets too close or when there’s danger of public embarrassment...

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...

3) The Have-To-Dos may happen, but not the Want-To-Dos. Most Procrastinators, even with the Panic Monster, get work done, but goals like exercise, healthy slow meals, hobbies or even a career change, are the important ones for us, but usually ignored by the Panic Monster. 

The Rational Decision-Maker in the procrastinator’s brain coexistz with a pet—the Instant Gratification Monkey ⬆.

This would be fine—cute, even—if the Rational Decision-Maker knew the first thing about how to own a monkey. But unfortunately, it wasn’t a par...

The Instant Gratification Monkey is terrified of the Panic Monster. It explains why the procrastinator who can’t write a blog's first line over a 2-week span suddenly takes all-nighters, fights exhaustion, and writes this Deepstash article.

Why else would an extraordinaril...