Why do today what I might as well do tomorrow? We've all heard at one time or another that little inner voice that prompts us to procrastinate - that tendency to postpone what we should be doing right now. We would thus be nearly 50% to procrastinate an hour a day at work, and 22% more than two hours, according to an OpinionWay survey for JeChange in March 2018. Thanks to the development of new technologies and digital distractions, this behavior would have even increased from 300 to 400% in the space of forty years, assures Diane Ballonad Rolland, author of I stop procrastinating, 21 days to stop putting everything off until the next day (Eyrolles, 2016).
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Often experienced in guilt, this inclination, which is not always easy to assume, nevertheless has hidden virtues. "Procrastination is not a problem, it is a solution" , estimates the editor David d'Equainville, who has organized every March 25 for ten years a "day
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