How do you get started on a task that you have been procrastinating on?

How do you get started on a task that you have been procrastinating on?
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answer:If you mean what kind of push it takes to overcome the resistance that has set in, sometimes it’s putting it alongside an even worse task I’ve been putting off even more. Most often, though, it is the galvanizing fear of an almost immediate deadline. If it isn’t a task that comes with deadlines, then I’ll go with a combination of guilt, relative greater or lesser awfulness, and, sometimes, an actual reward on the other side.
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