To overcome procrastination on distant goals, focusing on desirability ('why') is more effective than focusing on feasibility ('how').

“When the event is in the distant future, it's more abstract. It's or distant future or it's happening to somebody else or it's hypothetical. When it's far away from me, it's not imminent. I'm more likely to think about it in terms of desiraability, why I'm doing it, right? It's going to be much more abstract. But as when that future becomes now, my mindset changes and I'm thinking now much more about feasibility. How am I going to do it? And much more much more concretely about what I have to do.”