I find that active self-deception works for me frankly.
I concentrate on pretending that the thing i want to do is something I cannot not do. Whats one activity that i do every day that I can't avoid doing?
Going to the bathroom.
So whenever I try to talk myself out of doing that activity I ask myself, "Can you avoid taking a piss for an entire day?" the answer is no.
I found that for me the feeling of having to take a piss is the one thing that conveys both urgency and inevitability at the same time. and that any activity that i catalogue as "the same" as taking a piss by association also becomes urgent and inevitable.
anyway, this is how I got myself to run 4-5 km everyday for the last year and a half.
I concentrate on pretending that the thing i want to do is something I cannot not do. Whats one activity that i do every day that I can't avoid doing?
Going to the bathroom.
So whenever I try to talk myself out of doing that activity I ask myself, "Can you avoid taking a piss for an entire day?" the answer is no.
I found that for me the feeling of having to take a piss is the one thing that conveys both urgency and inevitability at the same time. and that any activity that i catalogue as "the same" as taking a piss by association also becomes urgent and inevitable.
anyway, this is how I got myself to run 4-5 km everyday for the last year and a half.