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Put off procrastination, a link fest


  • Kick start
    "For the first time, I seem to have discovered my subsconscious resistance to getting started: the inherent internal commitment to keep going past that first step. Take away that commitment, and the getting started seems far less terrifying."

  • 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work
    "I've discovered that any particular strategy only works for a couple of months before I learn to subvert it. As a result I have to keep inventing new ones."

  • Structured Procrastination
    "If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important."

  • The Problem of Procrastination
    "The problem of procrastination is one that often goes beyond self-discipline and whipping oneself from stasis to stress. It is usually the symptom of a multifaceted set of problems that defy a single solution."

  • Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit
    "Unconscious twitches that signal you're about to stop working. If you can figure out what these behaviors are and remind yourself to get back to work whenever it happens, you can stop the interruptions."

  • Procrastination, thief of... ooh! wanna watch a movie?
    "There are a whole bunch of theories about time management and why the desire to sit and mindlessly rip CDs into iTunes is more attractive than the thought of doing $arbitrary_task, but recently I've read two accounts of dealing with procrastination that I rather like."

  • Gotta Get My Stuff Done
    "I figured I'd take an extra minute to clean my whole desk because a clean desk would help me get my stuff done." (Warning: total time waster).