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ANXIETY & OVERTHINKING · 0:18

Procrastination may be protecting you from a feeling

“” Delay may be reducing fear, shame, uncertainty, or anticipated effort in the short term. Try this: Name what beginning would expose, then lower the first step’s emotional cost. Follow for the next start-small scan. Self-help only — not therapy, diagnosis, or emergency support.

Three takeaways

  1. Delay may be reducing fear, shame, uncertainty, or anticipated effort in the short term.
  2. Treating procrastination only as poor discipline.
  3. Using self-criticism as the activation strategy.
  4. Name what beginning would expose, then lower the first step’s emotional cost.

Video transcript

You said: Delay may be reducing fear, shame, uncertainty, or anticipated effort in the short term. Treating procrastination only as poor discipline. Try this: Name what beginning would expose, then lower the first step’s emotional cost.