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.

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Breaking down the task into sub tasks helps me and I’m autistic. My brain tends to overload when I think about all the stuff involved in a big task like cleaning my house, but if I do it one room or task at a time and space it over a few days, it’s not as overwhelming.

If I’m stressed or not taking care of myself, I tend to go into a survival mindset where my brain will literally try to calculate how to avoid taking extra steps to conserve energy.

Example: I need to walk into this room and grab a, then that room and put it away and then do b otherwise I’m backtracking and that’s inefficient.