This is based on personal experience, but I suspect it resonates with many people.

I have long characterized myself as a lazy person, because I often let the dishes pile up in my sink. It starts off slow. Just one dish that I'll get to later. It's just one dish. Then the next meal time comes around, and one dish becomes two. Soon it's a real pile and becomes a daunting task. It becomes another item on my endless to-do list. It begins nagging me in the back of my mind, but I procrastinate because "I have other things to do."

The problem is that I simply just overestimate how much time it takes to do the dishes.

There's a commonly prescribed ADHD tactic called the two-minute rule, where if a task takes under two minutes, you should do it right away. I know this well, but it's always been hard to implement. And it's because I always overestimate how long things will take. Doing the dishes, especially for a single person living in a small New York City apartment with a tiny dishwasher, really doesn't take that much time. The task also doesn't scale linearly with the number of dishes. The real challenge is just getting started - once you have momentum, it goes by quick.

Today after breakfast, I decided to do the dishes. Before I started, I set my kettle to make some hot water for tea. Just as I finished, my electric kettle went off. It only took around two minutes, and now I'm sitting here feeling more accomplished writing this little post, enjoying my tea.