What do you do to boost your creativity and/or productivity?
dstorrs: This will sound weird, but I harness hatred.Find a person or organization that you absolutely despise.  Preferably a person that you know personally--someone who makes your blood boil just from thinking about them.Then, do the following:1) Every night, put together a task list for the next day and do whatever preparation you can. I have a template of standard tasks, the last two of which are always "finish tomorrow's list" and "prep for tomorrow".  Preparation means locating resources, laying out clothes if you will be travelling, etc.2) Every day, work through your task list.  As you finish each task, mark it off.3) At the end of each day, for every task that you did NOT complete, put $1 in a jar.  At the end of the month, take all of that money, put it in an envelope, and mail it to the person you hate.  (I generally send it anonymously.)It's amazing how powerful this technique is.  It also helps a great deal at teaching you to estimate how long a given task will take, and teaches you to break large tasks into small ones.