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.

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

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.

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

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.