What do you do if you're struggling with procrastination and need to boost your productivity?

I find that if I turn everything off and just focus on the task at hand, I'm more motivated to get it done so I can go back to other things I enjoy!

Identify your triggers and minimize the impact. Once you know the source of your procrastination, avoid situations where you’re forced to choose between them and your work. It's like the marshmallow challenge, the marshmallows represent your procrastination triggers. If you’re constantly facing the marshmallows, it’s likely you’ll give in to temptation. Create an environment that minimizes these triggers, thereby fostering productivity.

Setting goals can help roadmap your relevant tasks in order. Be sure to specifically define your goals in an easy way that can be measured. Make sure your goals are trackable, and easily identifiable.

Define what you want to achieve and prioritize your tasks. Focus on the most important tasks first. Be Realistic and set achievable goals and be honest about what you can accomplish in a given timeframe.

A corollary to time management is to identify a project that DOES excite and motivate you - and then use that as your "carrot" to work through your feelings of procrastination.

Establish a discipline instead of just routines. Discipline is continuing to work and really make progress out of habit. Even on days when you don't feel particularly motivated, discipline would trump motivation. Because it is about habitual progress every day without fail, no matter what. This is a skill that's developed over time by learning to consciously change your patterns of behavior.

When people face problems, they react in one of two ways with a solution or with a distraction. For easy problems, most people automatically react with a solution, and that's the end of it. But when things get tough, it's very common to turn to distractions. Distractions are activities that temporarily take your mind off a problem without actually solving it. If you choose either one consistently enough, it becomes a habit, either a good habit where you’re always taking action to solve your problems, or a bad habit where you're always using distractions to hide from your responsibilities.

One great way to minimize distractions is by creating barriers and making the distractions less convenient. In practice, this could be putting your phone in a different room so you have to get up to check your notifications, or setting up a password that you have to enter every time you want to open social media. These may seem like small steps, but the less convenient your habits of procrastination are, the less likely you will be to naturally fall back into them.

Partner with a friend or colleague who can hold you accountable for your tasks and help you stay on track. Motivate yourself with rewards for completing tasks. This can create a positive association with task completion.

Try to understand why you're procrastinating. Are you feeling overwhelmed, bored, or anxious? Identifying the underlying reasons can help you address them and find more effective solutions. Remember that overcoming procrastination is a process, and it's okay to have setbacks along the way. Be patient with yourself and keep experimenting with different strategies until you find what works best for you.

This is a huge topic with never-ending discussion; Through my experience with procrastination I always visualize the end results and how it would enhance my work progress, my time, and further more my life. Also celebrating every successful achievement even it is tiny, that way I bring fire up the brain reward system which create pleasure momentum to keep moving on. Kaizen technique is the key of easy achievement prior to any goal strategy implementation, because it lowers so much the overwhelm and the mental charge. I hope this helps.