Thank you inquiringmind4u! This is the best insight I've had yet on my own chronic procrastination. (Nothing has been able to shift it, not even EFT.)
I always thought I was weak because I was more likely to do my work when I wanted to impress someone or have them praise me for a job well done. Or that I was lazy because of extreme avoidance behaviour. I realise now that doing some tasks did not allow me the opportunity to define myself as the person I invisaged in my mind. For example, I would put off cleaning tasks because I would see myself in the 'housekeeper' role when I did them, and that was a role I have always tried to avoid (perhaps because I was trained to do it by my mother :P).
I am still not sure how to go from here, though. Insight is useless without the tools to make changes, and if you have any tips on how to change this behaviour (more EFT?), it would be much appreciated.
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