[petercooper]

This is a true for me, probably not true for you, partly tongue in cheek reply: nurture intense anxiety around not doing things. I hate having "jobs waiting" and not feeling like I'm doing something. Even if I'm relaxing I'll generally be doing a sudoku, puzzle, listening to an interview, or getting lost in Wikipedia extending my knowledge of pointless trivia for University Challenge.

There are pros and cons (washing the pots up before eating dinner is never popular, but oh so necessary..) but I feel better than when I used to be tomorrow-man. It helps if you live with people who tolerate this approach. Am I always doing the right things? Ha, no - that's a separate challenge orthogonal to having the motivation to act at all.