i literally just read a really interesting article about how to overcome this exact problem and it was super helpful to me   key insights   right now your thinking probably goes something like this “first comes work then i can do something fun” sounds good but the problem is that for procrastinators the ‘something fun’ part never actually comes procrastinators don’t know where their time goes feel guilty for thinking they wasted time feel that they don’t deserve any rest and thus never really allow themselves any guilt-free leisure time      this creates a terribly negative image of work – it’s something that deprives you of leisure time fun play and pleasure work is something that gets in the way of your personal interests you unconsciously resent work which creates an unconscious desire to work less  the solution to this is to intentionally schedule time that you are going to have fun sounds counter-intuitive but so far it has worked really well for me if i know that at 6pm i am going to stop working entirely and watch 2 hours of law and order i dont feel like the thing i am working on now is depriving me of time to enjoy myself so its a lot easier to get myself to do the thing