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But when you do it (or start doing it), you actually feel good/better.

I procrastinate a lot and will never stop because in so many cases it makes perfect sense and works out well. I can't tell you how many times it turned out I didn't even need to do something I was procrastinating on, or a far easier way to proceed came up.

It's so easy to wind up with an infinite list of chores. Continually pushing a lot of them off as late as possible works rather well, in my experience.

Yes! It's incredible how many things we think we need to do that we don't actually need to do.

1) Finding a better solution and 2) Finding out you didn't need to do it at all are two great outcomes from procrastinating.

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