How to Beat Procrastination by Creating a ‘Token Economy’

In his book, The Now Habit (1), psychologist Neil Fiore writes about how he and his fellow psychology students back in school used to agonize for days over papers that would eventually take less than two hours to write:

All of these bright, doctoral-level students of human behavior were struggling as if they knew nothing about directing their own thoughts, feelings, and behavior. That seemed odd to me.

The theories we studied about personality and abnormal behavior weren’t of much help. They didn’t work…