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Tackling Procrastination

Procrastination is best understood as short-term mood repair: delaying a task not because of poor planning but to avoid the discomfort that starting it would produce.

Low Mood10 minPROtext or voice

How it works

This reframe changes what to do about it. If the problem were time management, a better calendar would fix it. Since the problem is usually a feeling — boredom, uncertainty, fear of doing it badly — the tool identifies which feeling the task provokes, then finds an entry point small enough that the feeling does not trigger.

Grounded in

the emotion-regulation account of procrastination, Pychyl and Steel.

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