It's not simply a matter of willpower to avoid procrastination. The "doom loops" emerge in the absence of a structure that returns awareness to a task (but doe

It's not simply a matter of willpower to avoid procrastination. The "doom loops" emerge in the absence of a structure that returns awareness to a task (but does not require anxiety about the task BEFORE that return). We've all made to-do lists...then avoided looking at the list for some unhealthy period of time. That's the cognitive dissonance hell (don't look! don't acknowledge the problem!). The answer presumably lies in habits, external structure, and patterns that allow items to be acted upon, quickly captured with minimal thought (e.g. "Getting Things Done" or some such system), and then, crucially, returning to that external structure early and often!