An Astrological and Ontological Guide to Procrastination

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Recently I’ve been looking at the particular issue of procrastination.

This is not something I’m unfamiliar with. And it’s particularly interesting because I’ve also been seeing clients who have issues around procrastination as well.

Procrastination vs Laziness

Procrastination and Laziness are two terms that are frequently conflated together. The two following statements are particularly familiar:

“I’m procrastinating because I’m lazy.”

or

“I’m always procrastinating, I must be lazy”.

Procrastination, in this sense, is very commonly approached as a problem that needs to be solved: “How can I stop procrastinating?” “How can I procrastinate less?”

I would like to bring in a new lens around this:

1. We like to think of Procrastination as the problem, but it’s actually a kind of result.
2. If procrastination is a result, then there is something that contributes and leads to that result.

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Procrastination as Results