Someone with a strong predisposition to procrastinate who managed to eventually beat it here.<p>As a teenager, I heard someone say &quot;never let a piece of paper cross your desk twice&quot; and took it to heart. Took a while to make it a habit, but now I can apply it to most meetings and emails -- I read, action then archive right there. So I hardly maintain a todo list of any sort. I make a list in the morning and finish&#x2F;scratch off its items by the evening. Doing that daily, my mind is always refreshed about recurring or long term tasks. It seems to work for me.<p>The other thing I found useful is that procrastination, or the getting-started-barrier is proportional to size&#x2F;complexity of task. I keep breaking the task down to smaller units until I get to something that doesn&#x27;t fill me with loathing when I think of it. And then I do it. That effectively starts the task.