The first law of holes is an adage which states: "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." The second law of holes is commonly known as: "when you stop digging, you are still in a hole."
First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this