Steve's Article and the one from The Kaizen Blog are great. I'd avoid the structured procrastinating article thought, because while it does work, it just replaces one bad habit with a slightly worse one.
The only thing you can do to overcome the procrastination habit it to replace it with the starting habit. An entire task can get done, piece at a time, if those pieces were done. It's that simple. The trick is getting those pieces done, but that too isn't rocket science.
The easiest way is to just take the next piece, divide it until it's small enough to devour, then work on it until it's done. If you are still making reasons, cut it up smaller. When it's small enough, you'll want to do it because it's only a few minutes long and it will get it out of your life. What often happens is that you get stuck into work, and end up completing the next piece, and the next piece and the next piece, and so on, until you've made a large amount of progress.
I've had lifelong procrastination problems because I've never had to try for anything. This has developed into a belief that if I don't try and fail, it's better than if I tried and failed. Even worse I also believe that wasted effort is the worst problem at all, so I only use effort if there is a *ABSOLUTE* guarantee Iwon't fail, and that I'll get immediate results from it.
I do great in exams, or in learning things, but terrible in long term projects, or those things where there's a chance of failure. Give me a task I can repeat until I get it right, and that takes less than a day and I'll do it; anything else I won't though. And any task that needs to be repeated over time, like cleaning, forget about it. That's got wasted effort written all over it.
Procrastination is always about putting off something important until later, not realising that right now is all the time we have. Later is an illusion that never comes, it's always the now. If you think about what you can work on
now, or what the best use of your time is
now, then you start to gain focus. Excuses become less significant, because there's often only one right answer for those questions.
Those articles are fantastic to put into practice, but you'll be up against your "wasted effort" mechanisms. Overcoming your own procrastination is one of the best things you'll ever do. The pay off is so much more that any wasted time or effort that you might put into it. Being able to get the power in your life back is worth paying price for giving up laziness and procrastination.