Rather than to-do lists, I have found much help with the subtly different "habit tracking" systems. I personally use this one: http://productiveapp.io/ http://p

Rather than to-do lists, I have found much help with the subtly different "habit tracking" systems. I personally use this one: http://productiveapp.io/ http://productiveapp.io/ I keep my threshold for daily success low. For example, I have a habit item of reading a book. All I have to do is read for, say, 15 minutes, and that suffices for me to click off that I completed the habit for the day, and I can go back to procrastinating if I like. But I find that once I get started doing something that I actually want to do (such as reading a real book rather than surfing the web), then it's pretty easy to continue doing it for a longer period of time.