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by kartickv 3657 days ago
A trick is to set yourself multiple tasks that are not exciting, so that you do at least one. If I tell myself, "I will edit all the photos I have been taking for almost a decade", I may not get around to it.

So, I tell myself, "I will either edit photos, vacuum the house or read the iOS Human Interface Guidelines." Then I may bounce from task to task, but I will finish at least one. After a while, the irritation of leaving a task half-done drives me to complete the other tasks as well.

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AKA "Productive Procrastination", a method that has helped many through history - http://chronicle.com/article/Productive-Procrastination/4493...
Thanks. I didn't know that term.