So true - that doing something you enjoy makes you more productive. And then have a few tricks to help when you are struggling. But if you struggle most of the time - no amount of tricks will help. You need to do something else.

My biggest win is getting started. If I achieve that then I'll be ok. I sometimes need to lower the bar and tell myself on bad days I am just going to draft 3 terrible articles or 10 awful headlines. For some reason that never seems too difficult to do lol