Procrastinating? We all do it to some extent. Sometimes procrastination can even be helpful—pointing to a need to reevaluate something or allow more time for something else. However, all too often, procrastination plays a detrimental role in our lives, leading to a small payoff in the present with a much larger cost in the future. Procrastinating results most frequently in self-inflicted stress, disappointment in ourselves, and missed opportunity. If you’d like to aim to reduce or eliminate the amount of procrastinating you engage in, consider this. Avoidance Take a look at the few most recent instances of procrastination you succumbed to. What was it you were avoiding by putting off what you should have been attending to? Perhaps you were overwhelmed by too many choices and chose to scroll social media instead; or perhaps you felt discomfort in the prospect of handling a responsibility, so you reorganized your sock drawer …