On a semi-humoristic note, there's also John Perry's Structured Procrastination theory, which won him the 2013 Ig Nobel prize in literature: http://www.structur

On a semi-humoristic note, there's also John Perry's Structured Procrastination theory, which won him the 2013 Ig Nobel prize in literature: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ Basically, be productive by doing important things as a way to procrastinate on even more important things. He wrote it as a humoristic essay but I actually find one of the tips quite useful: instead of trying to beat procrastination by taking on less responsibilities in the hope you'll finally be able to uphold them all, take on more tasks so that even when you'll inevitably fail to do some of them, you'll still have achieved much more than if had challenged yourself less in the first place.