Tip #1: Do your "sui generis" work at the same time and place every day
Foster automaticity!
Set aside a time and a place so you do your sui generis work at the same place every day and at the same time. For example, a writer should set up a habit to write at the same time of day every day. Protect this time ferociously. Do not book any meetings or phone calls at this time. Say “I’m busy; I have a meeting at that time,” if you have to. We want to foster automaticity so that our non-conscious activation system sets us to work. Writing at the same time every day (or doing your sui generis work, whatever it is, at the same time every day) sets up a work habit that will increase productivity and prevent procrastination. You won’t have to use your willpower and thereby suffer ego depletion, forcing yourself to get to work. Ego depletion makes procrastination more likely.
[This is part of a series. See main series page “My Best Productivity Recommendations, Boiled Down and Annotated.” ]
Only use your willpower in those initial efforts to set up the habit. Once the habit is established, the non-conscious part of you that has been conditioned to work at this time will cause you to work. And non-conscious causes that set us to work are stronger and more reliable than our consciously willed attempts to start us working.
Temporal but also spatial cues help to establish the work habit and they set up self-reinforcing conditioning, resulting in “learned industriousness,” the opposite of learned helplessness. Treat the work time as sacred and treat the workspace as sacred too. Do not do anything but your sui generis work in the workspace set aside for it.