We know what we should be doing when it comes to our finances. Whether it’s by making more money through starting our own business or doing some freelancing, or planning for our retirement by setting up our investment accounts. Yet, we never get around to doing it. Why? There’s always something that comes up, another “un-missable” event we want to go to. It’s easy to write it off as “you’re lazy” or “duh, everyone prefers not working to working.”. But in fact, there’s a very particular system in our brains that prevents us from working. You’re not lazy, it’s evolution.

What is procrastination?

Research has recently proved that impulsiveness and procrastination are deeply linked. Impulsiveness is part our hunting instincts. You get hungry, so you go out to hunt some bear for meat. Impulsiveness makes you grab your nearest weapon, say an axe ,and charge the bear head on. ......