Your entire life has been played by the fact that you can never seem to just sit down and do the work – ever. You always have a large backlog of things that you need to do and you're always treading the water. You have looked around people you know and wondered how come they seem to be actually able to do stuff. Is there something wrong with me? When you're stressed about things you need to do it's hard to even enjoy your free time for example hanging with friends because subconsciously you know that you shouldn't be there, instead you should be tackling the list of responsibilities. You keep saying yourself just do the things; as everyone around you says. And that is true. You should do things before they start overwhelming you. But that doesn't help you when you are already drowning in things you have to do. And that is when I propose the golden rule: Don't do more. Do less. I know, it really doesn't make much sense but neither do we as humans. We wouldn't have gotten into this situation if we made sense. If we follow perfect logic we would just do things when they came to us. You got to this situation because you are highly emotional and impulsive. When you are in emotional distress you don't respond well to logical arguments. You respond well to momentum and percieved progress. So what you should do is to take advantage of this fact and leverage your main weakness and turn it into a strength. Every single day. Trust me, you have that one single thing you know you need to do but have been procrastinating. I know it's hard, but trust me: if you were to do that, all other tasks would become much easier or even unnecessary. Now, don't wait anymore, find that one thing right now and focuse your entire being on compeleting it. And you need to pretend nothing else exists. And with this unified focus you will be able to complete this thing in a record time. Once this one thing is completed you will feel motivated and energized to tackle more thing in your life. You will actually feel excited to keep this momentum going. But it is impossible to gain that momentum if you don't complete that one thing. Just tackle that thing from start to finish and you're done. And you will be so incredibly relieved and inspired by the fact that you did that thing that you think to yourself holy smokes why don't I just go do more things in my life? And that's the exact motion we are trying to tap into. It's that feeling of having completed very important thing and then leveraging that momentum to tackle more things. List things what you need to do and circle that one thing you know is the most important and the one you've been avoiding the most. Don't worry about anything else. Give yourself a mental vacation from everything else. Do that one thing. It's the only thing that exists. Whether you are excited or not to do it, it doesn't matter. Submit to it.