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I am the god emperor of procrastination and precisely why I am here instead of getting on with my projects. What I will say is that I have been experimenting with setting myself goals and deadlines and have had a certain amount of success.

The thing is those deadlines need to be real. They need to have some weight behind them to positively keep pushing me in the right direction. If they are light and flimsy that is pretty much how I then approach the project.

I would say if you are not working on something for a client with actual deadlines a good alternative is to shout it from the rooftops, or just post on all your social media sites, that you are working on something and that you fully intend on completing it by a certain deadline. Now nobody might care if you do or don't, but what this hopefully achieves is making that deadline slightly more tangible. It's out there for the world to see and the goalposts have been erected.

Of course you could always quietly move or remove those goalposts while nobody is looking, but then if you're that way inclined there is probably little other than somebody cracking a whip at your back that will help you in your quests of completion.

Get a diary. Have set times to procrastinate. Stick to meal times. Don't overwork. Set alarms. All the things I have been failing at for far too long now. Onwards and upwards!