I've noticed the same thing. My theory is that when you're thinking about things in the future, that activates far mode, which is better at thinking about and doing things related to long-term abstract considerations like money, learning math, saving the world, and most of the things you procrastinate on. To take advantage of this you can make a plan in the evening and execute it when you get up next morning. I've even found it useful to plan what I will do tomorrow, then what I will do this evening, then what I will do right now... somehow the feeling of strategic far mode thinking can thus be transferred in to thinking & doing in the present.
Can even be as simple as making a really granular, dumb, easy-to-follow to-do list, then getting up for a while and walking around, and then coming back and doing everything on your list. Somehow it's easier to plan out something for your future self to do than your current self. (I wonder if you could push this even farther and just conceptualize the tasks that you were going to do as tasks you were going to do in the far future somehow... also, this looks interesting.
Here's an example of a mental manoeuvre I accidentally found, and thought might be generally useful (typical caveats apply).
I've had a manageable-but-important Problem for a few months now (financial in kind, details neither relevant nor interesting), of moderate complexity and relatively minor importance unless I leave it unsolved just a little longer.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the precise combination of things that triggers one of my ugh fields, which manifests subjectively as a fuzzy blank inability to maintain focus. Several times last week, it occurred to me that I should really Solve The Problem, but I wasn't able to get myself to spend any time thinking about it. Like, at all.
On Saturday, the Problem found itself top of mind once again. How irritating that I couldn't solve the Problem because it was the weekend, and when it wasn't the weekend, maybe Tuesday when work wasn't busy and the Bureau was open, I should really email Dr. Somebody and call Mrs. Administrator for the ...
*blink*
I had a solution, and a plan. What the what?
My working theory is that when there's no chance of actually Doing Something, this particular ugh field deactivates.
To me, this suggests a strategy (of uncertain generalizability): when an ugh field is preventing thought about something important, find a time when action is impossible and use it to generate a plan.
I would feel better about this advice if it had a deep theoretical backer. Anybody?