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Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.
Belleruth Naparstek: 12 Ways To Beat Holiday Stress Belleruth Naparstek 2010
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Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.
Belleruth Naparstek: Holiday Stress: 12 Ways to Beat It Belleruth Naparstek 2010
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Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.
Belleruth Naparstek: Holiday Stress: 12 Ways to Beat It Belleruth Naparstek 2010
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Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.
Belleruth Naparstek: 12 Ways To Beat Holiday Stress Belleruth Naparstek 2010
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Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.
Belleruth Naparstek: Holiday Stress: 12 Ways to Beat It Belleruth Naparstek 2010
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Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.
Belleruth Naparstek: Holiday Stress: 12 Ways to Beat It Belleruth Naparstek 2010
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Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.
Belleruth Naparstek: 12 Ways To Beat Holiday Stress Belleruth Naparstek 2010
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Procrastination can be a terrible stressor -- we're always aware of what we should be doing while we're not doing it, and it's a real joy-killer and energy-sapper.
Belleruth Naparstek: Holiday Stress: 12 Ways to Beat It Belleruth Naparstek 2010
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"Alas!" said he, "I may not, like thee, rejoice in the cheerful thanks of mankind; they call me upon the earth their enemy, and joy-killer."
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 Various
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However happy one may be, London Bridge Station possesses the qualities of a sovereign joy-killer, and would have inclined the thoughts of Mark Tapley toward the darker things of life; but to Flamby, alone in a world which she did not expect to find sympathetic, it seemed
The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921
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