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Here's a link to a forum thread from 2021 which may be helpful: https://giftedissues.davidsongifted...s/248331/procrastination.html#Post248331

You may want to consider that there are likely underlying thoughts/feelings generating procrastination.
For example:
- fear of failure,
- viewing mistakes as failure rather than as opportunities to learn from, grow, and improve (mindset),
- perfectionism (holding one's self to impossible standards),
- prescribed perfectionism (pressure from others expecting one to do better than their best under the given circumstances).

The book "Mindset" by Carol Dweck touches on this and many other ideas which may be holding people back.

More thoughts in this forum thread from 2015:
https://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/bb/ubbthreads.php/topics/226054/re-perfectionism-book.html

My 2E kid has a terrible problem of procrastination. He has good intentions but everything is "later." It hasn't been that big of deal in the past because last minute worked. Now that he has gotten older, the workload at school has greatly increased and the demand on time for all of his extracurriculars has made his procrastination an issue. He understands it's a problem and really wants to stop doing it but he can't. He sets out a reasonable plan but it ends up being all talk and it doesn't happen. He genuinely wants to change but can't seem to enact any changes. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can help him? We have calendars and written plans but it kind of goes out the window. Appreciate any advice.