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Surprised no one's mentioned it before. Structured Procrastination is a great productivity trick.
Basically, you can get lots of useful but secondary tasks done as a way of avoiding an undesirable primary task.
it's structured procrastination but it's still procrastination my friend. I think the most dangerous thing about procrastination is that you create new tasks for yourself that seem useful, when in fact they are completely unessential.
The point (as I took it) is that there are lots of valuable but non-urgent things one could do at any given time, and doing these as a way of avoiding something can make you quite accomplished. Doing "completely unessential" tasks wouldn't be Structured Procrastination, it would just be procrastination.
Clearly, this method would be inappropriate if you had one major task of such importance that doing anything else was a complete waste of time.