Why do today when you can put off till tomorrow? Well, because you can seriously mess up your life.

Procrastination - an avoidant coping mechanism that postpones necessary tasks - gets the best of us. Research shows that 85-95 percent of people say they procrastinate sometimes, according to the University of Virginia , and nearly 20 percent of people are chronic procrastinators , Dr. Joseph Ferrari, a professor of psychology at Chicago’s DePaul University, says.

But experts have several methods they back to fight the behavior. Just shifting your mindset is enough to make a difference.

"Everyone procrastinates, and it's just a human tendency," Monica Packer, author of the book "Sticky Habits," told Utah’s KSL . "We don't have to stay there, and that's something we can work on as long as we start by neutralizing it first."

Most people say they have procrastinated at some point in their life.…