What have you accomplished by putting off something else?

Sometimes the urge to procrastinate on some noisome task or responsibility leads to doing something else less aversive that we’ve been putting off.

I might stall on a household chore I detest by doing something else instead, such as folding a pile of laundry before cleaning the toilet, or paying a bunch of bills instead of scrubbing the stovetop.

My husband used to call this “accomplishment by avoidance.”

Does it work that way for you, or do you just cheerfully dive into the tough stuff and get it out of the way?