It isn't all that helpful, see: I went two weeks without posting because of some paperwork that took me all of two hours to actually finish. It works much better to just let myself do the fun things, and then I feel happy and confident enough to do the things I'm putting off, too. And yet I still do it.

(I think it's left over from thos old You Can't Do Anything Fun Until Homework Is Done rules, which just led to me spending ten hours staring at a wall and then doing the homework with a flashlight after bedtime...)