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You overemphasize that this worked for you and made you productive. It's not just a matter of different strokes for different folks. It's more basic: you really don't know that your productivity increase is due to the particular techniques, and the nontestimonal evidence for the techniques is weak or nonexistent. (For example, commenters have pointed out that they can find nothing rigorous on prodromo.)
Anti-procrastination is like dieting. Achieving a large weight loss over eight months doesn't make the diet effective: most people regain the lost weight.
Expect your results not only to regress to the mean but also to be subject to the same yoyo effect as dieting. You are probably creating a long-term willpower deficit that will ultimately take its toll.
Sorry for the pessimism, but you're creating unrealistic expectations in your audience.
I think that's too pessimistic. I have a pretty strong time-order self-report -- I spent many years being unproductive, implemented these changes, and then became productive, and haven't stopped yet. (Though the same is true for the weight loss from my diet change and addition of exercise...)
Not to mention, there is some "consensus of experts" here around these techniques, though admittedly this also doesn't mean much.
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You could be right, but I don't know what basis you're making this from. Is it your personal experience? Do you have nontestimonial evidence that these techniques won't create sustainable change, at least for me? I think it goes both ways here.