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There is an impulse to delay making hard decisions, which can be wise, but during the intervening moments, we convince ourselves that making a decision (getting off the fence) will relieve us.
However, because it is a hard decision, there is no good solution and there will be pain on either side.
Relief comes from a narrowing of options, not the "correctness" of your decision.
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If life is anchored to something beyond life (a transcendent plane, such as heaven), you live life waiting or achieving another life elsewhere.
Your current existence is subjected to a future existence.
This can also happen in work, marriage, or ideology: living a life for a promised future, you will never encounter.
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While we can easily break our day into chunks to manage it, the procrastinator requires more pain to invoke discipline.
They trade the current moment as stolen joy from a future burden, eventually pinned under the stress and anxiety of "too late."
Procrastinating seems akin to the thrill of gambling: risking loss as a means to generate excitement and challenge, and of course, the commensurate charge if you "pull it off."
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There is always one more hurdle, and the time is never right.
Instead, could you move the moment you feel it? Don’t delay even a second: be spontaneous and find yourself living a fuller (more authentic) life.
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Your stress management is not removing stress: it is delaying it while stoking the embers.
To douse it, change your story.
