I was a big procrastinator in the past. But I was lucky in that one of the things I procrastinated with was learning psychology !.<p>As I learned more and more psychology it became obvious how to win over it. I created a mastermind with other entrepreneurs and it helped enormously First, everybody has this &quot;problem&quot;. Second, you help other people and you help yourself.<p>Now I can make amazing things in very small amounts of time, and spend a lot of time reading-writting things that interest me, or stay with my family.<p>Basically what happens is that the human beings are flexible enough to do things no animal could do. But it comes at a price, no natural things require immense amounts of effort to do, even if trivial.<p>For example, most men could spend all day long hunting or fishing without problem, even if it is hard, rich people do that when they are free to do whatever they can. But plowing the earth or writing a book or programming are totally different.<p>When you do non natural things, odds are your body responds badly. For example, programming all day means you don&#x27;t exercise your inertial system. If you sit all day, your lymphatic system suffers a lot. There are hundreds of things like this. You don&#x27;t see any of this, you only know that you try to work and your body says NO!! You try to force it, but the situation worsens and your body will tell you NO WAY even stronger.<p>My cofounder died in his twenties by cancer trying to work harder. He forced himself so much into work that he got weaker and weaker before getting cancer. No sleep, no exercise, bad food. We know today that eating well, exercise and sleep is essential for your immune system.<p>Anyone that offers you an easy solution, he is BS. It requires effort and time to learn how to control yourself, but it is probably the best investment you could do in your entire life.<p>Probably the best practical book on the issue is &quot;the Now Habit&quot;. I prefer the audiobook. Wake up Productive from Eben Pagan is great too.