In looking for specific strategies to overcome procrastination this one jumped out. A more detailed description of the simple technique can be found in a paper by gollwitzer, <a href="http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/99Goll_ImpInt.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer/99Goll_ImpInt.pdf</a>