Procrastination may be a symptom of a lot of things - anxiety, ADHD, etc. Nobody on HN is going to be able to diagnose you, though - you should probably talk to someone who can actually diagnose you and possibly prescribe treatment if your experiences with procrastination are having a negative impact on your life.
Do you procrastinate about everything? Specific things? If you're just procrastinating about specific things there might be reasons that won't be solved by videos or whatnot. e.g. - like, do you turn things in last-minute at work because you get a lot of negative feedback? People develop defense strategies to avoid or at least defer painful experiences.
Or you could be suffering from a strong case of "I find zero meaning in doing these things." Coping strategies and medications are unlikely to help here.
If you really suspect that you have ADHD, depression, anxiety or something else - talk to a professional. (Mental health professional, not just any professional...) If you do have one (or more) of those things, you probably have problems aside from procrastination that may be helped by getting treatment.
My therapist helped me first acknowledge that it would be a long process to overcome procrastination and to stop being too harsh on myself. Then, I tried to do the smallest possible step that I was capable of doing towards the task I was procrastinating on. This could be as tiny as just sitting at my desk for a few seconds. The next day I would sit for a little longer. Then I would just open the file I was supposed to work on, etc. That's where the therapist was very helpful to me, she helped me overcome the guilt of doing something so ridiculously insignificant and be satisfied with it, while at the same time treating the deeper roots of the problem.
This so much, procrastination can have so many causes and is quite probably more of a symptom, just look at the other comment mentioning sleep apena and cpap... totally different from someone who has ADHD or even being at a point in life where useless crap just is hard to motivate.
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Procrastination may be a symptom of a lot of things - anxiety, ADHD, etc. Nobody on HN is going to be able to diagnose you, though - you should probably talk to someone who can actually diagnose you and possibly prescribe treatment if your experiences with procrastination are having a negative impact on your life.
Do you procrastinate about everything? Specific things? If you're just procrastinating about specific things there might be reasons that won't be solved by videos or whatnot. e.g. - like, do you turn things in last-minute at work because you get a lot of negative feedback? People develop defense strategies to avoid or at least defer painful experiences.
Or you could be suffering from a strong case of "I find zero meaning in doing these things." Coping strategies and medications are unlikely to help here.
If you really suspect that you have ADHD, depression, anxiety or something else - talk to a professional. (Mental health professional, not just any professional...) If you do have one (or more) of those things, you probably have problems aside from procrastination that may be helped by getting treatment.
This is probably the best advice.
My therapist helped me first acknowledge that it would be a long process to overcome procrastination and to stop being too harsh on myself. Then, I tried to do the smallest possible step that I was capable of doing towards the task I was procrastinating on. This could be as tiny as just sitting at my desk for a few seconds. The next day I would sit for a little longer. Then I would just open the file I was supposed to work on, etc. That's where the therapist was very helpful to me, she helped me overcome the guilt of doing something so ridiculously insignificant and be satisfied with it, while at the same time treating the deeper roots of the problem.
This so much, procrastination can have so many causes and is quite probably more of a symptom, just look at the other comment mentioning sleep apena and cpap... totally different from someone who has ADHD or even being at a point in life where useless crap just is hard to motivate.
I believe the most useful framing is exactly this one. Frame it as a problem of negative emotion regulation and management.
The second one in parallel as a physical problem as not getting good sleep, nutrient deficiencies, lack of exercise etc.
Both are interconnected.