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The fastest path to destroy procrastination is to make the work so convenient that it feels stupid not to do.
I've done this with two simple steps.
One, procrastination is kind of like a giant brick wall you have to climb over to get the reward. This might be you needing to study, but this is a bloody big brick wall.
First, we need to find ways to make the wall smaller, which means you need less energy to start climbing. This looks like lowering the length of the work activity from 1 hour to 5 minutes. The less amount of work, the shorter the wall.
Two, to do a bloody double whammy, add faster or more rewards behind the brick wall itself. Anything that feels rewarding is a huge incentive to start doing the work.
I do this by having a satisfying checklist, habit trackers I can check off after.
Basically, when you lower the barrier to the work and add fast little dopamine rewards on the other side, like check boxes and trackers, it becomes irrational that you wouldn't sit down and do the work.