5 Tips for Eliminating Procrastination...NOW

Procrastination truly is an amazing thing. We put off doing just about anything we remotely don't want to do. Even if our very health depends on it. The New Yorker's James Surowiecki points out in this book review that 70 percent of glaucoma patients procrastinate putting in their eye drops, even though doing so puts them at risk of going blind!

If you're a chronic procrastinator, there's still time to turn things around. Luckily, each day is a new opportunity for making a change and deciding to stop putting off the important things you have to do. Here are a few ways to help you kick start that desire.

A Most Disturbing Statistic

In case you haven't heard, kids in America are getting fatter every year. In just 18 years, the number of kids who are obese has skyrocketed from 6.5 percent to almost 20 percent. Two out of 10 kids these days are not just overweight, but obese.

Obese.

We know that eating bad stuff and not exercising leads to obesity. But we're now starting to understand exactly what kids are eating that is causing such a rapid increase in childhood obesity.