Ben MortonLeadership Trainer, Coach and Speaker

Procrastination doesn’t just waste time—it double-drains you

10 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Ben Morton argues that procrastination does more than simply waste time; it creates a "double drain" effect. When we postpone tasks that are already energy‑draining, we inevitably push them to later in the day or week when our mental and physical reserves are lower. This timing mismatch causes performance to drop, mistakes to creep in, and the work to feel harder than it should. Morton explains the causal chain—delay → fatigue → reduced performance—and highlights how this hidden cost of procrastination compounds the obvious loss of time.

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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.