I used to be a terrible procrastinator with school assignments. I’ll tell you what cured me. It was no amount of analysis nor any coaching in techniques and methodology. Rather, it was one of the best motivators there are: pain, pure and simple.
I made myself suffer enough with the desperate scrambles to eleventh-hour completion and/or the consequences of poor performance or nonperformance that I just didn’t want to do that any more.
Instead I figured out what really worked for me, which was feeling totally on top of the task and enjoying the unfolding of a good plan I had made for myself. There was a bonus benefit in self-esteem. Nothing boosts it like the feeling “I can!”
One of my little mantras along the way was, “How many times do I have to learn this lesson before it sticks?”
If there is no painful consequence as the result of your procrastination, why do you want to overcome it? Perhaps you are putting off things that don’t really have to be done.