>Also, personally, I've never had the "suffering" from failing when I put things off, so it's hard to believe that this method would work for me :( That's the

>Also, personally, I've never had the "suffering" from failing when I put things off, so it's hard to believe that this method would work for me :( That's the worst. A lot of people with ADHD (myself included) find that the stress response of an impending deadline is an extremely effective medication. It's a horrible way to live, but it reinforces itself by getting results. That said, "just get started" is the closest thing to useful advice this article offers. Thinking about how good you'll feel when you finish a task barely qualifies as a "strategy", thinking about how bad you'll feel if you don't finish the task is exactly the kind of automatic response that causes procrastination, and "easy things first" is the kind of behavior that quickly leads to a todo-list you can't even bare to look at.