I don’t fight it any more. If I’m procrastinating, there’s a reason. Rather than trying to force myself to do something I don’t want to, I try to see what the underlying reason is and deal with that. Not a cure-all, but it helps

I try to be abrupt. So I’ll be sat down for an hour, chastising myself every 5 minutes for not doing something productive, then one of those times, halfway through the thought I just kind of internally shout at myself to GET UP.

Put what I’m holding down, stand up, do one thing. If I can carry on going and do more-great. If not at least I did one thing.

Lists. Lists. Lists. And then you make a rule that you check something off a list every day before indulging in games or whatever.

There are a couple of types of procrastination for me.

There is the productive kind, where I’m idling away while pondering a blog post or a plot point in my writing.

And the unproductive kind. The kind where I just don’t wanna.

What I do is force myself to move. Set a timer for a couple minutes and do a simple task.

This usually helps me get into the flow.

It turns out, the answer for me is “wait for some over-greedy buffoons to destroy your time wasting social media sites”.