Same with getting a college degree. A degree isn’t the ends value. It’s what the person think the degree will get them, i.e. a job, respect, etc. Same with fighting for a cause, it’s not the cause but what the fighting for a cause will bring–a sense of self-worth, significance, direction.

Once you figure out why you want something then it’s all about methodology. There’s always multiple methods to get to various goals. You end up finding the one that reflects your Creative Self-Expression. You choose the method that says, this way of doing it reflects who I am as a person.

Or, perhaps I misinterpret, and you mean that instead of avoiding broccoli and the metaphorical tedium it represents, we should seek out foods for the soul which are both healthy and tasty to us? Like squash (for me ) or fighting for a cause?

Feeling good is complicated. You’ve heard about the delayed gratification baby study? Check it out:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer

1. It feels good. Even if it’s work I like doing it’s still work. And doing not-work feels much better than doing work.

2. For some stupid reason, I feel that it’s more fulfilling to challenge myself doing work at the last second than using all the time I alotted.

I’ve had that insight about myself for years. However, insight in itself doesn’t produce behavior changes. It really takes a habit change and some habits are very hard to break.

you write:
“When INFPs procrastinate, we go into avoidance mode. We seek comfort in the Not-Important activities. It’s our reward first for our short burst of frenzied work later. Meanwhile the Not-Urgent/Important stuff that’s time sensitive starts creeping into the Urgent/Important category. So it feels like were always stressed from going from one crisis to another. Those repeated short bursts of stress-filled activity starts wearing us down day after day until we shut down.”

I’ve been tortured in the last few weeks about (not) doing a freelance project that is hanging over my head in a conspicuous neon sign with marquis lights. Anxiety, city

Today, my procrastination included googling “procrastination personality type”. Thus my visit to your site.

“Filling the pantry of our time means having goals we feel are worth accomplishing. It means having goals we can act upon now. Without these goals, what’s left is television and Googling . . .”

Is it possible that insight facilitates transformation? Does productivity loom?

I am in some despair about the degree to which I put things off. I was under the impression that you wrote somewhere about the need for resonance. . . may be not. I think there is some connection between my being on my own and procrastination. I don’t have people to answer to in the same way that one does in an office. No one is looking at my productivity levels with genuine interest.

Of course my client is feeling a little abandoned — but he’s getting a pretty good deal for my services. I use that to rationalize the delays. This is taking the sort of risk that seems unwise.

I think I’ll take your personality test now.
; )