ABSTRACT
Clients who put off tasks often feel unproductive and rarely reach their goals. Worse yet, they frequently use the fact that they procrastinate to further beat themselves, which in turn tends to lower their sense of self-esteem and self-worth. This scenario is so common that rational-emotive behavior therapy lists inaction and inertia as a major irrational idea that causes emotional discord, and Ellis (2004) points out that the easy way (i.e., putting things off) is truly the hard way over the course of time.
