I am my own boss, so there is no-one lording over me to make sure I am finishing things on-time, nor do I have "office hours"... I just work during the day unti

I am my own boss, so there is no-one lording over me to make sure I am finishing things on-time, nor do I have "office hours"... I just work during the day until I feel that enough stuff got done. Sometimes that means I work for 6 hours, sometimes that means I work for 12 or more. I often fall victim to the distractions of the inernetz; email, twitter, HN, etc... That being said, I have found that the best way to stop procrastinating is to set goals with hard and fast deadlines. Nobody is going to accomplish those goals on-time except for me. If they are missed, I only have myself to blame. For me this is a great motivator to get things done during my waking hours. I have an extremely huge and looming deadline approaching in the next couple of weeks, and like patio11 said in a comment earlier today, I am efficient because I have to be [1]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1189284 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1189284 [edit] found link to patio11's comment [edit2] I also use a "Legal Pad Computer" to manage my TODO list. Making sure the list doesn't overflow to more than one page is another good motivator. I wrote a more extensive post about the concept here: http://bootstrapd.me/?p=62 http://bootstrapd.me/?p=62