Just look back on tasks you've completed with ease and figure out what worked for you in that instance. For you it might be different, for me it's usually:
- Eliminate external distractions - put in headphones and listen to music. Sometimes I stop for air guitaring though.
- Focus - use Timeboxing to separate times when you'll work and when you'll goof off
- Deal with the Adversion to "Hard" Tasks - I personally procrastinate least when I take a huge task, split it all up into a list, and then do the absolute easiest part first. It's all about inertia, if you view something as a single giant task, it's going to be much harder to get started.
Too often people procrastinate because they picture a task as the total effort involved in a task (and doing it all at once) -- well anyone in their right mind would never want to make all that effort at once! In reality though it's a combination of tiny bits of effort that gets a whole task completed.
- Eliminate external distractions - put in headphones and listen to music. Sometimes I stop for air guitaring though.
- Focus - use Timeboxing to separate times when you'll work and when you'll goof off
- Deal with the Adversion to "Hard" Tasks - I personally procrastinate least when I take a huge task, split it all up into a list, and then do the absolute easiest part first. It's all about inertia, if you view something as a single giant task, it's going to be much harder to get started.
Too often people procrastinate because they picture a task as the total effort involved in a task (and doing it all at once) -- well anyone in their right mind would never want to make all that effort at once! In reality though it's a combination of tiny bits of effort that gets a whole task completed.