Consider committing yourself to organized things that essentially force you to turn that part of your brain off. Take a yoga class (I found that to be a huge p

Consider committing yourself to organized things that essentially force you to turn that part of your brain off. Take a yoga class (I found that to be a huge psychological relief after years of working in startup stress-land). Take a language class. Join a dining event on Meetup.com (I'm assuming that's still a thing). Obviously this isn't going to help you attain some more personal goal, like "read a challenging book" or "work on my so-called passion project", but that's kind of the point. You need external factors outweighing your habitual behaviors, and you'll at least end up feeling like you made some personal accomplishment even if it's not some big, personal goal. There's also a lot of self-gaming and time management that can help. Simple tricks like "I don't want to go to the gym today, but I know I need to, so I'll just commit to driving to the gym and going inside for five minutes". Once you're there, you'll almost certainly find yourself sticking around longer, and over time this builds a healthy habit. The Pomodoro technique really helped me with focus and procrastination. "I'll just spend 25 minutes on this task with no interruptions". Next thing I know, I'm five Pomodoro cycles in and I've made a lot of progress.