When I procrastinate I feel guilty because I have not done a task

I try super hard when I catch myself saying things like “uh, you forgot again or waited to the last min” I stop myself and say “there are plenty of people not doing the thing that they should and don’t care at all, but atleast I feel bad about it, your doing more than most would do“ then I try to muster the energy to even just do alittle to “stick it” to the ones who aren’t.. I guess it’s my ego that makes me want to try harder 😅

I used to start with five minute commitment to the task I was procrastinating - sometimes that lead to more time on it; sometimes only five minutes but it was five more than I would have done

Definitely relate. Psychologically that only serves to negatively reinforce remembering , so my work around was consciously trying to rewrite my response to something more like “ oh cool I remembered and in the time between forgetting and remembering I did X Y Z other productive thing. I’m killin it”

When I remember I’ve forgotten something I used to bear myself up and get further in the slump. So I began retraining my thinking. When I thought “see you are useless” I would physically stop and consciously make myself think “hey it’s cool cause you just remembered you forgot! Now you get to do it or set a reminder to do it when you get home. Now I’m much less intense about my bad self talk.