Don't Delay

Dr. Pychyl,
Do you think our need for constant motivation masks the reality that a lot of people are attempting activities they just don't want to do? I'm not talking about doing taxes or the dishes, but something like a professional writer or professional wannabe writer who is lying to themselves about their desire to write, and buys book after book about writing motivation, attends workshops, has a writers' group, all the while whipping themselves like a horse to actually write? There are certain activities in my life that I've never had to motivate myself for, and the idea of procrastinating doing them is ridiculous; in fact, even though I'm not that good at them, I'm still eager to do them. Is procrastination our foolish attempts at something we've, perhaps egotistically, convinced ourselves we want to do?