procrastinating

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Joseph Ferrari, a professor of psychology at DePaul University in Chicago and author of “Still Procrastinating?: The No Regrets Guide to Getting It Done,” has found that about 20 percent of adults are chronic procrastinators.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

Procrastinating Hill calls procrastination one of the most common causes of failure: “Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the ‘time to be right’ to start doing something worthwhile.

From Time • Dec. 8, 2015

Procrastinating holiday shoppers can now grab one of Miami’s most iconic two-seaters: the all-white 1986 Ferrari Testarossa driven by TV cops "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs in the hit 1980s series "Miami Vice."

From Reuters • Dec. 24, 2014

According to Joseph R. Ferrari, Ph.D., of DePaul University, procrastination researcher and author of the book Still Procrastinating?

From Forbes • Dec. 11, 2012

Procrastinating, timid, false, he was not the man to deal with serious abuses.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved