Procrastination is tied to anxiety. It causes anxiety, but it is also caused by anxiety. This anxiety stems from not having thought through the steps, the literal actions, that will get you to your goal.

the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.

Procrastinate: If at first you don’t succeed, give up immediately, move on to some other task until that becomes unbearable then move on again circling back around to the first problem. By now, your subconscious will have worked on it, sort of like sleep, only cheaper.