People can reduce decision fatigue and avoid procrastination by making decisions for their future selves ahead of time.

“I am making a decision as my future self I am saying I know Mel Robbins well enough to know at some point this woman is going to have no willpower she is going to be weak she is going to be desperate she's going to be emotional and so I need to make a decision for the future Mel Robbins”

Engaging in safe but effortful or unpleasant activities can steepen the dopamine trough, which accelerates the return to a motivated baseline state.

“if you were to take that state of being unmotivated or procrastinating and actually do something that's harder than being in that a-motivated state in other words doing something that's more effortful even painful you can rebound yourself out of that dopamine trough much more quickly”

Ed Mylett maintains that procrastination occurs when an individual's results threaten their internal identity, leading them to subconsciously self-sabotage.

“You procrastinate because your results are about to exceed your identity and you're turning the air conditioner on”