How do you fight procrastination?
rubinelli: The most helpful book I've read about procrastination (and I've read many) is The Now Habit. It explains why people procrastinate, what they think when they procrastinate, why even simple tasks stress them out, how they can reduce this stress, why they feel they don't have a life, and specific chapters on how to deal with procrastinators.
Just to cite one of its dozens of ideas, advice like "just buckle down" and "tough it out" is part of the problem, because it creates resistance. Your natural response is thinking "that's true, I just have to finish it", which is wrong for two reasons.
First, if you "have to" do something, then it means you don't want to, so you fight yourself. You become your most severe taskmaster, you deny yourself guilt-free play time, you resent "having to" do that task even more, and procrastinate even more.
Second, when you think about finishing a project, you make it look overwhelming. As others here said, the right approach is choosing a point, starting from it for a few minutes, and see where it takes you.