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Procrastination breakerYou are not lazy.
You are avoiding something specific.

Procrastination is not one thing, which is why general advice about it so rarely works. Avoiding a task because it is genuinely unclear needs a completely different response from avoiding one you are afraid of doing badly, and both are different again from avoiding one you have quietly decided is not worth doing.

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Name the thing you are avoiding.

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✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
Answer about one task

Not procrastination in general. The causes differ per task and the mixed answer is useless.

2
Read the first step, not the label

The diagnosis matters only because it picks the intervention. The step is the part that does anything.

3
Do it in the next ten minutes

Every first step here is sized to be startable now. Scheduling it for later is the thing you were already doing.

Applying the wrong fix makes it worse. Telling somebody paralysed by perfectionism to break the task down gives them a longer list to be perfect about; telling somebody whose task is genuinely ambiguous to just start means starting six times and stopping six times.

Six questions, one diagnosis, and a first step sized to the actual cause. If the diagnosis is wrong the second-place cause is shown too — you will usually recognise which one is yours immediately.

✦ The limit

An answer is not a record.

This works something out and then forgets it. It cannot tell you whether the number moved, because it has no memory of the last time you ran it and no idea what you did in between. Every calculator on the internet has that limit, and if it has never bothered you then this one is yours for free for good.

EvyOS is the same structure with the work recorded against it. Send the result across and it becomes real goals, tasks or habits with their dates — then the next answer is computed from what actually happened rather than from what you remember typing.

Questions

Procrastination breaker, answered.

Because the fixes contradict each other. Breaking a task down helps when it is too big and actively hurts when the problem is perfectionism, since it hands you more things to be perfect about. Applying the wrong one is why general advice about procrastination so often makes people feel worse.
Then that is a genuine result and the most valuable one here. Sustained avoidance of something you have already decided is not worth doing is not a discipline problem, and no technique supplies a reason. Dropping it or handing it on is a legitimate outcome.
No, but they are indistinguishable from the inside, which is why depletion is scored separately. Pushing through on an empty tank produces work that needs redoing and costs you the following day too.
It is based on the well-documented finding that procrastination is an emotion-regulation problem rather than a time-management one — you are avoiding a feeling, not a task. The seven causes are the common shapes that feeling takes. Every rule is printed with the answer so you can disagree with a specific one.
One at a time. The causes differ per task, and answering about procrastination in general produces a mixed diagnosis that fits nothing.

Keep the answer.
And the record of doing it.

Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.

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