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.

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

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

I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

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.

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