How to Trick Yourself to Stop Procrastinating

Whenever I catch myself procrastinating, this is my go-to trick and it always works, because it's simple.

The first thing we need is a goal and a high leverage activity.

Here’s an example:

• Goal: publish two articles a week

• High leverage activity: writing (articles)

Now, writing is too generic, so let’s deconstruct it into mini activities (ones which I follow):

• Coming up with a topic for the article

• Research (keywords, facts, quotes, stories)

• Writing headline

• Doing …