For some people, procrastination is a form of emotional management.
For others, sometimes the best strategy is "embrace the suck": do it even though you're likely to fail. Keep repeating until you don't.
Having a good well rounded education or library of random facts helps you dig into problems because it gives you perspective. Learning should be a lifelong process.
Finally, physical health is very important. If you're not working out, start a regular, manageable, cardiovascular exercise routine. There's many benefits to this, better sleep, better focus, and confidence building.
Just wanted to add 2 cents to this comments and the rest of the comments in this thread. Lots of good stuff here on ADHD, trauma-orientation, and emotional management.
To build on this thread, I think it's important to feel what is happening when you procrastinate. What is it like in your body when you think about your task. Is it because you think you are going to fail? Because the task involves interpersonal conflict? Is it because you just don't want to do it (not interesting).
If you can start w/ your body + emotions, you'll get a felt sense of what is standing in the way. From there you can start to ask the question "why", is there a reason that those types of emotions happen when faced with this type of task?
As someone with ADHD, anticipatory anxiety has stopped me in my tracks countless times. I try to use this method to be aware there is anxiety, the feelings, and the story I'm telling around that anxiety. For me the anxiety is often a way of not starting, and if I don't start I can't mess up. In recognizing that, I can be a little bit more supportive of myself and be more willing to try.
For others, sometimes the best strategy is "embrace the suck": do it even though you're likely to fail. Keep repeating until you don't.
Having a good well rounded education or library of random facts helps you dig into problems because it gives you perspective. Learning should be a lifelong process.
Finally, physical health is very important. If you're not working out, start a regular, manageable, cardiovascular exercise routine. There's many benefits to this, better sleep, better focus, and confidence building.