Mailbag - How to overcome procrastination?

I have received a recent email from one of our distinguished readers. This is what she wrote:

Procrastination - Avoiding it

Tip # 1 Everything starts and ends with the self

If someone said to you that you were a procrastinator, your immediate reaction would be to defend yourself. “It’s his fault”, “My mother was like that too”, “I was forced to do something I didn’t want to do”.