My procrastination deadlock

April 8, 2023 at 10:01 pm (PT) in Personal
  • Have productive task X that I need to do but don’t want to do.
  • Have productive task Y that I want to do but don’t need to do.

Don’t feel sufficiently motivated to do task X. Can’t do task Y without feeling guilty for not doing task X. End up doing nothing (or rather, end up doing unproductive task Z instead). Sigh.