It’s a mess. And with the monkey in charge, the procrastinator finds himself spending a lot of time in a place called the Dark Playground.

The Dark Playground : For us this could be defined as a place where leisure activities happen when they're not ...

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 ...

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. 

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...

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...

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...

Instant Gratification Monkey doesn’t understand the Rational Decision-Maker any better than the Rational Decision-Maker understands him. He thinks why would we continue something when we could stop, which would feel better?

Why would we practice that instrument when it’s not fun? W...