For most people, procrastination is a minor irritation.  It's the interference in an otherwise crystal clear transmission, and one with which they can deal quite easily if they choose to do so.  For most people, procrastination is something we do when we have a particularly unenviable task to do, or something we really just don't enjoy.  So we put it off, and put it off until we can't hide from it any more, the deadline is looming, and it has to be done.

But for chronic procrastinators, life isn't quite so rosy... 

The chronic procrastinator goes through life under a cloud.  His life is marred by the constant inexplicable barrier that seems to prevent him from getting on with things.  It prevents him from being the best, and achieving goals that he could surely achieve with ease.

Life for the chronic procrastinator is filled with guilt and doubt. Guilt when he lets himself, his friends, his colleagues, or his family down... again.  He know he would do it, and yet did nothing to resolve the repetitive cycle of failure through procrastination.  Doubt about taking on a new task or responsibility for fear that he may once again let everyone down.  Make no mistake, the chronic procrastinator isn't lazy.  He will often find other things to busy himself, and in many cases expend far more energy avoiding a task than it would take to complete it. For him procrastination isn't something he just wishes he could get away from, it really is a shackle around him that holds him back.  

The dictionary definition of procrastination is: "the act of delaying or putting off an act until a later time".  But in chronic procrastination it is much more.  It is a habit, honed and perfected over many years.  If you ask them, procrastinators always have an eloquent and convincing answer: "I didn't have time"; "I had so much else on my plate", or simply "I forgot".  They always have an excuse.  And then you have the procrastinator who somehow manages to pull it off.  Flying by the seat of his pants he defies the laws of time and somehow manages to complete the task in the allotted time, and to acceptable levels of satisfaction.  The trouble now is that he is justified by his success: "Well I did it, didn't I?"  Nonetheless, he will still feel the guilt and doubt.

Alas, all is not lost.  Procrastination is a habit, and like all habits it can be broken, undone, and replaced with a new habit.  There are many ways to learn new habits, and among them, hypnotherapy.  Hypnotherapy works so well for procrastination because it allows us to break the spiral quickly.  By working with the subconscious mind, we are able to learn new habits much more quickly than if we did it consciously.  That's not to say we can't learn how not to procrastinate through conscious means, of course we can, it's just the hypnosis is faster, and arguably more affective as a result.