Step one: get out of your environment. Your brain has become addicted to responding certain ways based on your surroundings. There are some lines of thought y

Step one: get out of your environment. Your brain has become addicted to responding certain ways based on your surroundings. There are some lines of thought you physically can't have when you're stuck like that. Step two: be in places where you feel you are wasting your time. Get stuck in traffic for hours. Go to some family event where everything is trivial and people talk for hours about how obamacare is destroying america. Get your brain to start wishing, "I don't want to be here wasting my life on trivial bullcrap -- I want to be doing something important with my time." Step three: when you get back into your brain-stuck environment, DO NOT START doing what you did before. DO NOT open reddit (block it in your hosts file or run dnsmasq and block (asterisk)reddit(asterisk) hosts and (asterisk)ycomb(asterisk)). DO NOT turn on a tv show or a movie. Once you start your old habit, you lose. You won't have a chance to stop yourself until you go through another sleep/wake cycle. You are allowed to turn on music. Step four: start something new. you wanna be starting something. Find something you can't do, and figure out why. Do you know how a webpage is delivered from server to browser? When was the last time you wrote a BST? Just start doing something that requires thought and potentially creativity on your part. Things will fall into place after that. But, for the love of Tony Robbins, DO NOT START your old habits. DO NOT open reddit. DO NOT watch a tv show or movie at your computer. Once you _start_ you become unable to stop until your brain resets.