Why do I do this?

Hey, I also love YouTube and it’s my favourite past time. If you are overwhelmed with a to do list, can you try to divide them into three things per list, once you finish that list you can go to the next one when you have energy. Seeing a lot of undone things are very overwhelming so minimising to do list might help. I hope I helped you in any way :)

@BeeNina

It sounds like youtube is causing a long accumulating to-do list.

Typical procrastination is when you think about something you are not particularly like, the pain centers of your brain light up. So you shift and narrow your focus to something more enjoyable for you. It is the coping mechanism that the brain started, but we do have a way to break it.

1. As @RainyThoughts says, cut the task into small chunks is a good idea. When there is a long list in the to-do list, does makes people feel overwhelmed and want to run away. Cut the tasks into small chunks that easy to finished in a short time. When you see the list looks short and not hard to handle, this brings back energy and confidence to deal with it.

2. Pomodoro Technique. Set up a 25 mins timer as a session. Be fully concentrate in these 25 mins. Meanwhile, take away everything that can interrupt you like, youtube, phone, social media, etc. Take a 5 mins short break between sessions. We see 3sessions as a set. Take 30 mins long break between sets.

3. Reinforce the positive spiral. Every time you finished something in the session makes you feel good. That will give you the energy to keep going to the next session. Make sure to adjust the task if it is too big, so you can always have progressed at each session.

Wish you clean up your to-do list soon.