The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.