A bolder way to approach this dilemma might be to mature the inherent delayed (deferred) gratification complex most humans are born with and those with an A.D.D temperament might seem more susceptible to.

First the individual needs to understand the benefits will outweigh the costs intellectually of a (proven valuable) task, this is of course easy. But then through simple exercises the less intellectual behaviour picks up on this and it becomes more instinctual.

For example a wide-spread epidemic in the real business world (even with ‘normal’ people) is the completion of expense reports before the corporate card bills pile up and the individual actually suffers a personally incurred late-charge from the procrastination.

The fact of how wide spread this is and the fact of how absurd that almost every month individuals are suffering material personal charges, and the fact that the task is very trivial to complete, makes this a good example and an ideal candidate to introduce the change-behaviour.

If this ‘expense report’ exercise was available to an individual then the individual would just agree without question to do their expense report before any other task as soon as the information became available to complete it; ‘as a personal experiment‘.

Typically after the seventh time of doing this (in my experience) the individual starts to actually feel the elative benefits of not having an expense report hanging over their head (some people even have stress dreams directly associated with outstanding expense reports).

This elative benefit becomes a stronger motivator than the impulsive procrastination behaviour and the behaviour can then be applied to other procrastination vulnerable tasks.

The goal is to have the individual actually constellate the elative behaviour so they can recognize it as a concrete ‘thing’ they want more than the ‘intangible’ thing they want to avoid. This is a much stronger motivator than pure intellectual reason in avoiding procrastinating behaviour. With some imagination I’m sure everyone has some reoccurring tasks that this exercise could be applied to for them to constellate the elative emotion and therefore let them map it to individual actions.

That’s my opinion anyways. Of course you don’t need to post this as it might seem a bit antagonising, but I just read a load of your posts and although I’ve had personal thoughts that might seem to run against the advice, I think this item compelled me the most to mention something.

Best Wishes Though