Intellectualizing my idiocy

I was recently talking about my poor decision-making skills with my friend A, and an old decision map I'd done came to mind.

I used this assignment, for a School-Based Decision-Making course in grad school, to explain the decision process that causes me to return rented movies late and incur fines. It was a small assignment, and a great deal of fun; you can click the link to see it in full; it's short and fairly light reading.

I really think, however, that I'm onto something with this. Procrastination is an investment of time and effort that has its own value, similar and opposed to the time and effort one might expend in direct action. The very act of putting something off invests the delay, as well as the thing, with an added weight (whether it be of monetary value, anxiety, importance, guilt, or something else). This may be part of why the initial step is hardest to take.