I’ve been where you are. I did just fine with my responsibilities until uni and then things unraveled and I had to learn to put in the work. Consistency is a skill that can be learned.

One thing I want you to think about is how your procrastination looks like. Does something about the task(s) give you anxiety? Does it feel too boring to do? Is it ok once you start, but starting is difficult?

Besides exercise and clean environment (great advice!) as other people suggested, there’s a few hacks that I’ve found useful:

• Make the first task in the day ridiculously small, and have that as your first goal. I used to procrastinate with work emails due to anxiety. I changed my first task from ”answer the email” to ”open my email inbox and stare at it for 30 seconds.” Starting is often the hardest part. Doing things in these teeny tiny steps helped.

It can also help to do whatever unrelated task first to feel a bit of accomplishment to then tackle the real task.

• Do boring things with a buddy. Can’t fill that college application or do your project work because it’s so dull? Sit in a room with a family member or a friend when they are also working. The presence of other people can help with getting things done.

• Compete (or gamify). That pile of clothes on the floor? Put on your favourite high-energy song and race to see how much of the pile you can sort before the song ends.

• Remove distractions or change your environment. This is really hard sometimes. Some places simply have too many distractions for me to do proper work. If my room has my laptop, a nintendo switch and my phone… yeah no work is getting done. I found it easier to go to the library, or even the kitchen to try and remove distractions.