I realized that I need to keep changing the techniques I'm using to keep my brain on my toes. Basically, the effectiveness of any productivity idea/hack starts

I realized that I need to keep changing the techniques I'm using to keep my brain on my toes. Basically, the effectiveness of any productivity idea/hack starts out the most effective and interesting and then after a few weeks/months it usually starts to become less motivating. At that point, I know I need to either find a new idea or revamp my interest in the original plan. For example, people will say to use a phone timer or hourglass or notebook or whiteboard in different articles. I have all those things, and once I accepted that cycling through them and adding new things to the rotation doesn't mean they failed it became much easier to keep the chain of not procrastinating going. Along with this, I've also tried to accept that sometimes I won't notice the decrease in effectiveness until I've started to fail at something, and that's just part of the reset/switch period. If I'm aware of myself and notice things becoming harder, I can try to pre-empt the procrastination by looking for a new tactic. If I'm too busy or bored or stressed and I mess up my schedule, it's not going to last forever. Sometimes it's fine to pull an all-nighter. I think a reasonable amount is about once a month, but some people would try to do less.