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Here's 'one weird trick' that will instantly stop you from procrastinating:

- Schedule the activity

- When the time comes, you'll probably try to think of ways to put it off - ohh the great internal debate: to do, or to punt. Tell yourself that you might as well get started while you rethink your position.

You'll find that you only need to be motivated for about five minutes before you're cruising right along! =)

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My experience tells me you're right - once you start, the barrier to continue is infinitely smaller than the one that stopped you starting in the first place. However, I promise you if it were that easy, this discussion would be moot :)

I very much agree with this. The hardest part BY FAR is getting started on the task. Once I'm in the groove of say, doing Calc HW, I don't want to be interrupted by stuff like reddit, I want to finish solving the problem I'm on

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