Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
 I do very much agree with the idea that procrastination is an emotional problem but what is the solution?<p>I think of it like this: If i sit and watch youtube all day, that is a fine, comfortable day, nothing bad will happen at least not in the immediate and in the most part not that much in the longer term, unless I have something that absolutely needs to get done as it is critical, although in general i would have gotten that done if that is the case. The problem is that it is easy to waste life away doing this.<p>But if the task is say I am redecorating my house. The resistance comes up, because say I need to order something, do I order this one or that one? which is best, and if i order it, maybe I have delivery issues, maybe it comes on the wrong day, a day I am not home, maybe it comes and i don't like it, maybe it arrives and I try and set it up but I do it wrong and i damage it etc.<p>Doing something gives me the opportunity to achieve something but it also gives me the opportunity for way more to go wrong, it's very simple, the more things I do, the more things that are going to go wrong and the more 'painful' that is going to be... so unless i feel like I have to do it, why do it ? I could just watch netflix all day, this is the issue.<p>Which is why I like Tim Urbans Ted talk so much and it reminds me of this: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj3xNOi4aHvAhVTVhUIHaMgBhkQwqsBMAB6BAgLEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Ftalks%2Ftim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator&usg=AOvVaw2CiM_J73XRQaz1kO-8taw4" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...</a><p>Basically we are going to die and don't have that much time to waste. I think realising that might help somewhat, because then it gives me a kick of the right type of motivation, sitting watching youtube all day means nothing in my life will happen and i won't get to do all this stuff and then I will be gone. Something like that seems like it could be the only/best way to motivate yourself in the face of this, knowing you are actively going to have to choose to do things which then means things are going to hurt.<p>Basically to do anything, you have to accept you are going to be hurting yourself, so you have to make the hurt of not doing it worse than the potential hurt of doing it.