Underlying Motives that Drive Procrastination

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Reference: What are the psychological origins of procrastination?

While the explanations in this article make really good sense - i.e. procrastination has roots in what we value, what we believe, and what we are keen to do - there may also be underlying, not-so-apparent, maybe unconscious motives or emotions that drive procrastination.

So for each of us, or for those we may be trying to help, we must vet these explanations vis-a-vis a self-reflection, self-exploration, or self-discovery about what is truly underlying ours or others' difficulties to get things done.

This requires suspending, to begin with, the assumption, judgment or conclusion that it is something as pejorative as procrastination. Our mind, body and spirit may be telling us that what we're trying to do is meaningless and that our meaning or purpose lies somewhere else.

And this may not be so logical or rational!