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The tweet-thread length version is that I spent a year learning how to have feelings, which is how I learned that procrastination is fundamentally an emotional problem. I was "tired" and "low-energy" all the time because I was lonely and depressed. https://twitter.com/rodarmor/status/1120832376857227264 …

"What worked" was an eclectic mess: circling / authentic relating, seeing a sex coach to deal with my sexual insecurities, neo-tantra workshops, some meditation, going gluten-free...

Too hard to summarize here what I learned from doing all this. Roughly, "emotional processing": how to deal with / feel / integrate my emotions instead of suppressing them. More poetically: I reconnected to my soul.

As a result, in the beginning of 2018 a weight lifted off of me that had been paralyzing me for years, and I felt amazing, more amazing than I could remember feeling, for months. One of the many effects of this was that I had zero desire to procrastinate.

It became very obvious that my desire to procrastinate was almost entirely a desire to avoid bad feelings, by numbing myself with e.g. a TV show or the internet instead. When I got enough of a handle on my bad feelings, the procrastination evaporated.