I Have the Fever -- Procrastination Fever

This is the thing that frustrates me the most about myself. I find it WAY too easy to put something off. I can always manage to rationalize why I can do whatever I need to do in half an hour, tomorrow, next paycheck, whatever.  OR, I decide that instead of this, I'm going to do that. But that is really way down on the list of priorities, while this is definitely closer to the top. And then, inevitably, I get stressed or feel guilty because I didn't do that which really needed to get done.

So here are a couple of questions I'm trying to ask myself to both fight the procrastination fever, and when I try to tackle my to-do list:

1. Is there a task I should be doing instead of what I'm doing right now?

2. At the end of the day, will I feel like I accomplished something?

The correct answers are NO to the first question, and YES to the second. If your answers stray from this in any way, you may have a case of Procrastination Fever. The only cure for Procrastination Fever is to stop procrastinating and start focusing on what you should be doing. Make a list of what needs to get done and go about doing those things.

What do you do to fight the fever?