Sasha Vata: How do you tell if you have avoidance or idealistic procrastination? She says it's the attachment to like not wanting to look out of shape when you go to the gym that keeps you from going to the gym. The things that avoid procrastinators tell themselves is usually diagnosing them with an unfixable problem, she says. "You got to just be like, you know what, it's going to suck"