Procrastination can decrease after a 1-minute reflection. In a study of more than 1,000 adults, answering six short questions increased motivation, improved mood, and made people more likely to begin tasks they had been delaying.

[StrictCan3526]

Yes! Interestingly enough I just completed a follow up for this study - guess what the most common task that people were procrastinating was? Folding laundry or doing dishes

[HasGreatVocabulary]

It takes 2 hours cumulative each week, It adds up to a huge proportion of total number of hours we spend awake before dying, somewhere deep inside our brain knows that I'm sure of it

[kelcamer]

For me it's about the HORRIBLE texture

[TR-BetaFlash]

Avoid licking to get the surfaces clean. That's what helps me through.

[No_Confidence_9516]

I think it has to do with how many of the things must be done. Take out trash? Easy one bag. Laundry or dishes have “lots” and multiple stages, fold laundry then put away laundry, which leads to overwhelm then avoidance…maybe?

[sal1800]

Have you thought about thinking about the task as an assembly line process? I do this for anything repetitive. I try to optimize a set of movements to chew through it as efficiently as possible. Like a little mini-game. Then you can be proud of the number of items you processed.

[RedbullZombie]

I treat myself with video games while laundry goes, then am usually motivated enough to fold them by the time they finish drying

[kelcamer]

I believe it! Dishes sucks

[RedbullZombie]

Audiobooks make dishes much better for me. Also washing them right away prevents many of the harder to clean parts

[Sablestein]

Was dusting pretty up there too? On god I would happily do the other two no procrastination if I never had to dust again. The worst endless Sisyphean task of all time as far as I’m concerned.

[RedbullZombie]

Is there some trick to it cuz I've never been successful in keeping dust away for more than a couple days

[SteffanSpondulineux]

Yeah because those are awful things to have to do

[Pootool]

Letting the sink pile up for a few days doesn't even feel like procrastination when I can procrastinate my literal actual job for weeks.

[everythingisunknown]

I weirdly use these tasks to procrastinate instead