You do it. Your work colleagues do it. I did it before starting this post. What is it?

Procrastination!

Throughout the day, we all experience that lack of desire to move forward on projects or tasks. Yet, the question is why does this happen? According to journalist Lindsey Ellefson, writing in Life Hacker, procrastination comes in at least six different flavors. In her recent article, she highlights each one, starting with perfectionism:

The perfectionist. You’re worried that your work might not meet a high expectation, so you don’t finish your work or, in some cases, don’t even start it at all.

For each of the six types of procrastination, Ellefson offers a possible solution. For example, with perfectionism:

If you’re the perfectionist, remind yourself that it’s your own personal standards that are stressing you, not necessarily the work itself, and you can do the work by setting realistic, incremental goals before getting started. I struggle with this one, and a tactic that helps me is working out what the absolute worst possible outcome might be if I don’t do well on a task. Even if I get a zero on a test, what will it do to my overall grade? When I think realistically about how I’m almost certainly going to get way higher than a zero—but even if I didn’t I’d be okay—I feel better, and get to work.

To discover the other five types of procrastination, please read the rest of the article. Of course, you could always put off doing this for later …