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I’ve always been a procrastinator. I’m mostly functional. Decent career, business and family.

About ten years ago I realized the truth that works for me:

Mood follows motion.

You can’t wait until you feel good to do the thing. It’s the doing of the thing that makes you feel good.

That has worked well for me too. I am a chronic procrastinator. When faced with a new task, I "trick" myself by saying I will just endure the tiny bit of pain to get started in some stupid, basic way (e.g. create a blank document or write a list of the real work I have to do). Most times, after 5 minutes of pain, I will be over the hump and just keep working because I want to see it through.

I had this realization as well. My method is to try for 30 minutes. If it doesn't click by then, it's not going to.

If I tried and failed, I'm not the problem, my disability is.

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