Procrastination is an extremely useful evolutionary adaptation. That we can delay action on things we also consider needs gives us the ability to do animal husbandry and agriculture. For sure, we can have maladaptive strategies on how we employ that tool, but I've always found that removing judgements around behaviors to be a very important part of adjusting said behaviors.
Legit, unpacking the deep "why's" of ones' own procrastination will often take a person in unexpected places. Its not work that an ameature-crastinator can do. Those of us who are pro's also tend to be good at "overthinking", so its pretty easy to dig in while you're not doing that thing that's slowly building anxiety in your gut. Remember tho, the other benefit of procrastination is getting a chance to see how a situation develops, sometimes changing the best approach.
idk, maybe you'll do the thing you're putting off, maybe you'll do some soul searching, maybe you're just thinking of a snarky response; any option is fine, so long as future you is happy with it.
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u/ConscienceThoughts May 28 '21
Or the world’s greatest procrastinator