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Well, I've been down that road a lot. Countless times I found myself reading about ways out of procrastination, until noticing that this was procrastination in itself. Quite frankly, I've even felt ashamed by putting this out loud: I'm delaying work by reading about how to not delay work.

So, my never-ending work in progress solution: focus on discipline. No magic bullets, no special talent, no nothing. Just focus on being disciplined and have faith on us being creatures of habit (i.e. if you force yourself to do it, it will be easier in the future). A special talent to get things done is cool, as well as being motivated, but - really - you can't rely on those to get things done. Talent comes and goes, much like motivation. Discipline, on the other hand, you can rely on.



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