I utterly lacked that power. Then someone said to me, "I used to have kleptomania, but then I talked to a therapist, and they told me that I'm only stealing things compulsively in order to prove to myself that there's something wrong with me. After I realized that, I stopped." I thought about that for a while, and decided that maybe the only reason I'm acting akratic is that I want to prove to myself that I do experience akrasia.

And now... well, I don't actually know if that has fixed the problem, or not. I haven't tried to use the method TrE mentions enough times to know how well it works. Send me a message in, oh, a week, and I'll get back to you.

I don't know. Probably, it just works for me. It's a five-second-skill.

1. notice procrastination
2. think "I shouldn't be procrastinating, it doesn't help"
3. convince myself to doing the task I ought to do
4. do it.

I'd say the third step is crucial.