Strangely, the one thing that worked for me doesn't appear to be on this list:
The resistance to starting a task is geometrically proportional to the SIZE of the task.
So I try to break everything down into tasks that take no more than a few minutes. I wouldn't have tasks like "Write FooBar architecture document", but rather "Write FooBar intro", or "sketch connection diagram on paper" or "copy connection diagram to Visio/Draw.io".
The resistance to starting a task is geometrically proportional to the SIZE of the task.
So I try to break everything down into tasks that take no more than a few minutes. I wouldn't have tasks like "Write FooBar architecture document", but rather "Write FooBar intro", or "sketch connection diagram on paper" or "copy connection diagram to Visio/Draw.io".