Ben Morton explains how procrastination drains you twice: once by wasting time, and again by forcing you to do hard work when you're already tired. Pushing tasks to later in the day means lower energy, worse performance, and more mistakes. The delay itself makes the work feel harder than it should.
We put off those draining tasks. We delay them. We avoid them. Or we leave them until much later in the day. And this creates what I think of as a double drain effect. You see, what happens is we put off a task that we already find draining, or one that depletes our energy. To a point in the day or week when we're already tired. And that's when performance starts to drop. That's when mistakes creep in. And that's when everything just starts to feel harder and more difficult than it perhaps should.
