Procrastination

Many creative ponies have this problem. Procrastination: it's easy to do, easy to fall into, and hard to get out of. I mean, I've been procrastinating a lot myself recently, but... there have also been dead things walking around to deal with. Yeah. You try and concentrate while skeletons are threatening to stab you in the face. Not so easy now, is it?
Of course, things like that become much less threatening when you have a wife who runs outside at the slightest sign of danger to pummel the crap out of anything she sees. I long ago learned to cancel out any feelings of wounded male ego in favor of just sitting back and watching her beat the crud out of things.
Back to the point: procrastination. What I've learned helps to get out of a rut is to actually let my attention turn to... whatever it wants to focus on. I begin to put effort into whatever it is that's distracting me, I make myself... say, read that book I want to until I'm sick, or play that mindless game over and over again until I'm so sick of it I want nothing more than to turn it off and do something else. And then I keep doing it for a little while longer anyway until I feel like cutting my hooves off.
Then, suddenly, it's a lot easier to get back to the task I was supposed to be doing the whole time. Neat.
Luna says I'm both crazy and stupid. I agree with her, but... hey, this actually works. But I'm all about turning pain to pleasure and pleasure to pain, so... you know. Anyway, it's a good lesson either way, I think. Anything good can become bad, anything bad can become good. But this isn't about moderation: it's about remembering that if you really want a day to waste, first you need to take care of your responsibilities. Even if to make yourself do them you have to take some time off to first make yourself sick of everything else.

~Scrivener Blooms