Waiting for motivation or engaging in less painful activities are ineffective methods for overcoming procrastination.

“I already told you earlier you can just wait you can wait till your motivation comes back and a lot of people do wait in fact they procrastinate they start doing other things that are less painful than the state that they happen to be in when they are you know trying to get into gear to go work out because I realize not everyone wants to do that or to study or to have a hard conversations whatever it is and what do they do they start engaging in activities that we and indeed they would not consider pleasureful activities”