One of the best ways for me to avoid procrastinating on task X is to have some other task Y, and to procrastinate on Y by working on X. Obviously this requires

One of the best ways for me to avoid procrastinating on task X is to have some other task Y, and to procrastinate on Y by working on X. Obviously this requires some mental gymnastics to eventually complete both X and Y, or to come up with some task Y that feels important but actually is not. But it works great.