[fistofjohnwayne]

What I do seems a little different than most of the answers here.

First, I take the normal step of laying out the tasks for the day into small chunks: bugs, pieces of a feature, whatever. I put them in a format that I can easily check off as I work.

Once I'm ready to work I put my over-ear headphones on and crank up something with a beat. It needs to be loud enough that it's all I can hear. I use a standing desk which means...

I start to dance around a little. It looks something like this, only less cool: http://youtu.be/jECu2MZsrmE?t=16m50s

I'm not sure why this works for me. I could speculate about my mind/body getting into at rhythm so that even when I break focus on a task to wait for a compile or a test I'm able to jump right back in without... Missing a beat.

As I check off the tasks I prepared I feel more like I'm shouting for the DJ to play one more song than a dude working to complete tasks for his corporate overlords. I only discovered this about myself in the last few months when I switched to a standing desk. Changed my life!