“It’s the start of a brand-new day and I’m off like a herd of turtles.”
You’re not alone
Piers Steel’s 2007 meta-analysis puts chronic procrastination at 15–20% of adults. The rest of us just do it on a smaller scale.
“Which feelings trigger you into joining your herd of turtles?”
Take the test to find your triggers
You’ll get a short set of scenario questions. Answer them as the everyday you, not your best self, and get an action plan matched to your real triggers.
Free, anonymous, nothing stored. A self-reflection tool, not a clinical assessment.
Your six triggers, loudest first
Each trigger scores 0 to 6. Nobody scores zero across the board, and the shape matters more than the height.
Build your plan
We’ve ticked the tactics that match your loudest triggers, plus two that help every kind of turtle. Untick anything you don’t want, then print or download your plan.
Why triggers and not types?
In the “old” days researchers sorted procrastinators into 3 types: aroused, avoidant, and decisional.
But researchers ran that model against more than 4,000 people in 2010 and found that the 3 types didn’t predict what people did. They found that it’s your triggers that predict what you do, not your type.
Procrastination works like mood repair where you skip a task to escape the feeling it produces. The unopened email and the unmade phone call are hiding two different feelings. Different tasks produce different feelings. Know the difference and you are one step closer beating your procrastination.
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