What’s often at the heart of procrastination is our inner child/teen rebelling against being controlled or told what to do. Distraction. This is the practice of being elsewhere, of bypassing both the now and the here. Distraction is a getaway that leaves what we truly need to do in the background or out of sight. The work here is to stop distracting ourselves from our distractions and instead illuminate them and their pull on us as much as possible.
