Procrastination Bad for Health

In his Fast Company article, "Procrastination Is Literally Killing You," Eric Jaffe reports that procrastination is bad for your health:

"It's bad enough that procrastination can ruin your work day — an earful from the boss for blowing a deadline, say, or just a later evening at the office than you planned.  But the effects of habitual delay can infect you at the physical level as well as the professional.  Procrastination has been linked with headaches, digestive trouble, and colds or the flu, and a new study adds something far worse to the mix: heart disease.

"Psychologist Fuschia Sirois of Bishop's University reports a significant connection between the trait procrastination and hypertension and cardiovascular disease among a sample of nearly 800 people in Canada and the United States.  The finding held true even controlling for factors such as age, ethnicity, and key personality traits.  One likely reason for the link, she argues, is that procrastinators cope with the stress of heart illness in especially damaging ways."

Contributed by Kirsten Haugen

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