Start with a daily shutdown ritual
End each day by writing tomorrow's top three priorities. Your brain stops looping on unfinished tasks once they live somewhere safe, so you sleep better and start faster.
A two-minute review—what got done, what's next—turns a chaotic to-do list into a clear plan you can act on the moment you sit down.
Protect your peak energy window
Most people have a 2–3 hour window where focus comes naturally. Schedule your hardest, highest-value work there and push admin tasks to your low-energy hours.
Track your energy for a week and the pattern becomes obvious. Then defend that window from meetings, notifications and busywork.
Make the next step impossibly small
Procrastination thrives on vague, oversized tasks. 'Write report' is intimidating; 'open the doc and write one sentence' is not.
Shrinking the entry point removes the resistance. Momentum does the rest.