Sublime

who can put their needs on hold and continually manage their tendencies.

When your thinking is contaminated by negative emotions, make as few decisions and engage in as few interactions as possible. This keeps these emotions from spilling over into your life.

With a journal, you can record what events triggered strong emotions in you and how you responded to them.

creativity appears to depend partly on processes taking place in your brain while you’re not focusing. (Limiting the time allotted to high-stakes work also helps reduce the feeling of being intimidated or oppressed by it, which causes some people to procrastinate.)

the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.