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by debt 2491 days ago
I think the biggest realization I've ever had is that things take time away. The sensation of procrastination happens when you feel the "thing you need to do" should take some smaller constrained amount of time, usually in days or weeks or sometimes months.

But if you can stomach that the thing may take years or even a decade, you'd feel much less like you were procrastinating.

In addition, if you assume that the thing will always be done piecemeal, here and there, or when you can remember to do it say like cleaning a room or organizing a thing, then that can also alleviate the sensation of procrastination.

The sensation tends to occur when you maintain a false belief that the things you need to get done should take hours or days instead of weeks or years.