Overcoming Procrastination with Small Steps

Your brain literally values scrolling TikTok right now over your future success.

It's called time inconsistency. Your Future Self wants good grades and career advancement,

but your Present Self just wants dopamine hits from social media. Here's the truth:

being stuck in procrastination is actually more painful than doing the work. That anxiety you

feel avoiding your assignment? Worse than just starting it. The problem isn't

doing the work, it's starting the work. Use the 2-Minute Rule: make your

task so small it takes less than two minutes to begin. Don't study for an hour,

just open your textbook. Don't write the whole essay, just write one sentence. Break that research