[srconstantin]

Systems are your friends.

1. Track the things you want to accomplish. Joe's Goals is good for that. If your problem is working enough hours a day, track hours.

2. To-Do lists. I use ToodleDo religiously.

3. Block distracting internet sites. I use SelfControl (for Mac.)

4. Quit your biggest distractions altogether. (For me, that's webforums. I deleted all my webforum accounts.)

Systems are great if it's just forcing yourself to do stuff you're really going to need to do. In a way, that's the easy part. The hard part: when you chronically avoid doing something, often it's because you genuinely don't want to do it, and the right answer is to find a way to stop doing it entirely. One of the biggest improvements in my recent life was to identify certain kinds of work that made me miserable, and make a plan so that I'd never have to do them again. Discipline is a good thing for work that's a little hard and boring but still worthwhile to you; but discipline can't get you through work that you really hate, at least not for long.