Drop rigid schedules when impulse strikes.
Keep mamny projects open & switch when bored or stuck.
Forbid all work to force boredom, which will eventually force action.
Give yourself permission to daydream.
Seed a lousy start to lower the stakes and engage the critic.,
Make a plan for doing the exact wrong thing.
Kill overthinking and spinning thoughts with physical movement.
Set a timer or a numeric goal and don't censor yourself.
Modify your environment to support work -- before you start.
Add mood-influencing sensory triggers.
Enforce strict boundaries on mental states.
Uncouple your cognitive tasks from the clock on the wall.
Keep notebooks of creative ideas, hints, and snippets.
Inhabit the person who could behave in the right way to get it done.
Set a distinct time or place to do something difficult.
Quit a peak momentum in mid-task and stop until a later time.
Capture unrelated or tangential thoughts for later.
Break big tasks and problems into steps and then rearrange them until things make sense.
Unlink and relink steps and ideas until things feel smooth and realistic.
Work backwards from the end goal, one backstep at a time.
Build a map of desired state changes all along the path from start to finish.
Expand a complex problem into a mind-map or web.
Let different parts of your brain (logical, emotional, spatial) each weigh in on a problem in turn.
Use a physical or verbal anomaly to break unresolvable loops.
Enforce a strict contract or perimeter on problems and solutions.
Don't use complicated solutions when a simple one will do.
Invest time in your tools, and you'll feel committed to start.
Treat much of what you're thinking about a problem as coming from an unreliable narrator.
Mark opinions that are masquerading as facts with ""[CITATION NEEDED]."