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A proactive person, who has defined their goals, values, principles, has direction and sees beyond pain/pleasure does not procrastinate, because they have given up the short term pain/pleasure model of living and replaced it with a long-term, principle-centered life.
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Oh how I wish it were as easy as you make it sound! We wouldn't need most of this website.
My goals, values etc. have not prevented me from procrastinating. It is a habit I'm still trying to overcome. It is not necessarily pleasurable, but it is less painful to stay in my comfort zone than to force myself to do difficult tasks. I definitely believe Robbins is correct. Even our guiding principles and morals, when you break it down, are designed to give us pleasure in the form of pride in our accompllishments, feeling noble, successful, virtuous, productive, etc. And we are less motivated to gain pleasure from achieving our highest goals than we are to avoid the pain of doing the work.
Has anyone had success in associating their desired behaviors with pleasure and their unwanted habits with extreme pain? For me, this hasn't worked.