Procrastination is an extremely unpleasant person. It comes to you without an invitation and at the very moment when you have urgent or important work that needs to be done.
It looks at you accusingly and says: "Are you going to write an article? How can you do this when the room is a mess? !!!"
Or, on the contrary, it sympathetically says: "Just look on the Internet for a minute. It will help you tune in!" And then you find yourself in two hours in the same place, the work is not done, and time is lost.
Why is this happening?
There are usually two reasons.
First, you basically don't want to do this job. We must find the reason for this. Maybe you don't see the point in this? Then you should think about how, in principle, to abandon this project. For example, I know for sure that I’m unlikely to ever go jogging again. Or recently I refused to write articles on a topic that has been "mine" for several years. I just don't see any reason to develop it further!
If it is impossible to completely refuse to do something, then it is worth considering whether you can delegate it to another person. For example, cleaning an apartment. Perhaps in the time you spend procrastinating about cleaning, you can make enough money to pay someone for the job and buy yourself some good coffee ...
The second reason that often leads to procrastination is over-complexity of the task. Our brain sees a pile of problems and gets scared. The simplest thing is to break one complex problem into a number of simpler ones and solve them sequentially.
I tested both methods on myself and they both work.
As a last resort, procrastination can be made useful. Don't want to write an article? Clean up your house!