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We need a "Tricks to remember tricks when we need it".

Print and frame. Hang on a wall in your office, near the workstation.

might actually work if you use identity based language, such as:

My Rules:

1. When I feel like not working, I will commit to doing just 5 minutes of the task.

My home office is the last place you'll find those kitschy "Just Eat" and "Love" signs that are so popular with suburban housewives.

Maybe those housewives figured out something you didn't. :)

Make it your passphrase

I don't even know what my password is anymore it's just faded into a sequence of movements and clickity clack sounds.

One year in high school I was in a mild panic the morning after Christmas break because I couldn't remember my locker combination. On the way to school I was mentally preparing myself for going to the office and asking them to help me. Then when I got to school, as I was taking things out of my locker I remembered that I needed to go to the office so I could... hold on. My locker is open. I opened it. What was the combination again?

Then I stood there probably looking like an idiot (mercifully I came in a bit early so it was a mostly empty hallway) spinning the dial around trying to recall what I just did a minute ago.

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