Procrastination Dash – “a short burst of focused activity during which you force yourself to do nothing but work on the procrastinated item for a very short period of time.” I especially appreciate a variant of the concept called “Fill Your Hands” – grab a bunch of stuff around your house until you can’t hold anything more, then put just that stuff in the place it is supposed to go.

This assumes there is a clear place where things should go that are strewn about, of course. This certainly was not always the case in my bachelor days.