I'm glad it's helped you, and it does make some good points. However...

So, someone showed me a TED Talk done by Ted Urban, a blogger, about why we procrastinate, and I would like to recommend it.

Here is the link: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator

To summarize the talk, procrastination and wasting time occur because each one of us has two people in our minds: A rational decision-maker, who does what makes sense how and is willing to do hard and unenjoyable things for the sake of something greater, and an instant gratification monkey, who only wants to do what is fun at the moment. In a non-procrastinator's mind, the rational decision-maker is in control, so the person is capable of doing things that make sense. In a procrastinator's mind, the instant gratification monkey takes control and eats up all the time we have on doing things that are fun in the moment, but are not necessary now. This leads to procrastinators being stuck in the "dark playground:" in which they are supposedly having fun, but not really, as they are ridden with guilt, anxiety, and dread.

The one thing the instant gratification monkey fears, however, is the panic monster. When deadlines get too close, when time is crunched and things take longer than expected, the panic monster appears and is able to shoo the monkey away, allowing the rational decision-maker to take control once again. This is what allows procrastinators to somehow meet deadlines even though they did not leave themselves enough time to properly finish their tasks.

And yet, even though they meet their deadlines, procrastinators are still unhappy. Why? Not because they cannot finish the things that have deadlines, no: Because they cannot finish the things that do not have deadlines. Because the panic monster, it turns out, only appears when things absolutely cannot be put off until later. But you know what you can always put off to later? Pursuing your passions. Developing good health habits. Writing. Drawing. Getting a better job. Making that Board post you really want to make. And that is the real burden of the procrastinator.

I feel like this talk spoke to me on a personal level, because I procrastinate on a lot of things. I cannot tell you how many hours I've wasted in that dark playground, browsing Reddit or checking on the Discord. And did it make me happy? No. Because I have a short story I want to write, and because I have a drawing I want to finish, and those things just aren't getting done. I procrastinated on writing my Permission attempt a lot. I procrastinated on taking steps to becoming a better person. And I can't afford to do that, because there is only so much time. What matters is not the present, but the past and future as a whole.

But this video helped, because it gave me the jolt I needed to finally start breaking out of that dark playground. I'm still getting distracted quite a lot, and things are still taking me a much longer time than necessary when I don't have a deadline (seriously, writing one paragraph shouldn't take a whole hour to do). But I felt very accomplished yesterday, because I procrastinated less. I didn't get on the Internet; I sat down and fulfilled my responsibilities.

And at this point, after watching a video once? I think that's all I can expect of myself.

...I think it's missing something, and that's digging deeper into the reasons why people procrastinate.

(Disclaimer: I'm going by your summary, and have not seen the video at this time.)

See, yes, sure, let's run with the rational decision maker versus the...instant gratification monkey. Man, what a term (and with unfortunate associations to a common "today's generation's problem" claim, though using it to talk about procrastination is definitely valid). The thing this talk appears to be missing is why instant gratification winds up in control.

Sometimes it likely is just down to "the other thing is boring, so I would rather do just about anything else"...but that's already getting into reasons, isn't it?

Quite frequently, there's a reason why a procrastinator begins to avoid something. In some cases, it's boring; sometimes it's difficult, or similar to something that has been difficult in the past despite this one being easier; sometimes the task itself would be fine, but it's connected to something the procrastinator doesn't want to be doing anymore, and, being now in an environment where distractions are "allowed", it becomes harder to focus on.

Sometimes it's a case of fear. "I don't know how to do this", or "what if I get it wrong", or "I've never done this before, or "this is connected to something serious and I don't want to think about it and oh no I should have done this ages ago aaah"...

The "instant gratification monkey" wins out over the rational decision maker in a lot of these scenarios purely because fear (even indirectly/unrealized) keeps the latter from from taking over right away and redirects actions to the former as a form of avoidance. That's the point at which Ted Urban's "dark playground" shows up: avoidance doesn't exactly lessen fear, and can both heighten it and add in guilt, anxiety, and further dread.

Or at least, that's my theory. Procrastinators don't wind up in the "dark playground" (...I'm sorry, this is starting to sound like something from Partially Kissed Hero, given all the "Dark Ravenclaw" and "Dark Muggle" stuff going on) because their pursuit of instant gratification takes over at random; instead, they wind up there because some negative emotion attached to the task at hand is sending them into avoidance (or, sometimes, it's just become a habit, or, alternatively, seems to have done so because the negative emotion is harder to identify). In the case of pursuing the good things, the ones without deadlines, it may be habit and expectations mixed with guilt: "I couldn't get this other thing done, so obviously this isn't going to work out either, even though it should", or even, "I keep making a mess of important things, why do I deserve for it to be any different with something that's mainly just important to me?"

I think, working with what Neo's said (and bits of past reading/research/talking to people, which have informed a fair bit of this post, actually), that the key (or one of them) to changing procrastination habits is to find ways to disrupt the habit and put the "rational decision maker" back in charge (or back in charge more quickly). Targeted pep talks or analysis of the procrastination process, having another person in the room with the idea that both people are working, taking advantage of a school/work environment to promote focus, setting an evening cut-off time after which the to do list is off limits...they may not work for everyone (heck, I doubt much of anything in this post is universal), or work perfectly or every time, but in the search for ways to overcome procrastination quicker and more frequently, there are definitely worse places to start.