>>13999304Yeah, put effort into it.
Most people sit by idely, expecting "un-procrastination" to hit them like a lightning bolt and externally get them to do something they don't internally want to do.
That's stupid.
You have to do the thing, whether you want to or not, and you can say "but I tried" all you want, but you actually didn't.
You can get up and go out the door at the correct time every day, and that causes you 0 effort. Starting something also causes you 0 effort, you just mistake the mental battle occurring in your head as some sort of effort being performed, when it literally is anything but. If you are arguing in your head about doing something, you have already lost, and in fact aren't even in the fight.
Starting something you need to do should be as mindless as walking out the door/driving a route you've always driven. Don't think about doing it, ever. Just stand up, walk to wherever it needs to occur, and do it.
Second, habits are to blame. Your brain is composed of two major systems (Thinking, Fast and Slow). Your brain tries to offload EVERYTHING to a habitual, unconscious habit, because it takes way less energy to perform. So your life becomes habits. You take a cue from your environment that occurs every day (sitting down in the same chair at the same computer as soon as you get home) and you enter into your habit.
You cannot stop a habit, but you can overwrite it.
First, remove or change the cue. If you sit down at your computer every day when you get home, refuse to do that. Stay in the living room, kitchen, go for a walk; or, if you have a laptop, move it to another location for work separate from your fuck-around-itis time.
Phone a problem? Turn up sound, put it in another room (fucking zoomers).
Thinking, Fast and Slow + The Power of Habits are, imo, a blueprint to how human behavior works and how to change it. TPoH is more fluff-by-example, but has a decent what-actions-to-pay-attention-to. It's helped me with fitness and diet.
