Lately I've found putting post it notes with little to-do lists on the front of my laptop so they're in my face as soon as I open it is helping a lot to get over the hump, and having a notepad has always been simple and great  too! That and keeping a big folder of my demos and working songs on my iPod is pretty essential

Alot of it has to do with patience. You must be ready to fail and not completely give up.

You must set yourself up mentally and be positive. I cant really get into it when im not in the best of mental health.

Something that helped me is giving myself time constraints in doing each track. I, like many others here, have ADHD. The vision of the track becomes lost very easily when thought out too much.

And most of all have fun with it. Think about making music as a fun thing to do. Not a chore or a task, writing music weekly should help you unwind from the troubles that you face out in the real world, not add to them.

Maby take some time out to work on your tools, create some template files, research plugs that can fix your mixing problems, or find a better vocal mic / preamp, or set up your studio, organize a patch bay. Read the manual for your DAW, note any shortcuts you haven't learned, assign shortcuts to a multimedia / gaming mouse, make notes on your favorite patches. If you have hardware synths get a software patch manager and check out other peoples patches, and set up some of your own fav banks.

All this ancillary stuff can slow you down when your doing songwriting, so it really helps to solve all these problems to strike quickly while your inspiration is still hot.

I'm a big proponent of noodling, personally. Instead of thinking that I'm starting to work, I like to pick a piece of gear, or whatever, and zero it all out and just start messing around. In the long-run it really helps you learn your tools/toys, but it also takes the pressure off because you're just trying to have a good time.

You also should remember that the record button is your friend, and not think that it only is for your great ideas. The best advice anyone ever gave me was to simply "press record." It gives you a great living timeline of how you progress over the years, plus there's always some great gems that you can use later as starting ideas.

TL;DR less working more playing.

For me, it's not a question of procrastination because if I had my way I'd spend almost all of my time trying to make music.  But I have to try to prioritize since I have a day job, a wife, and a family.  Then, my actual music making time has to be divided among doing and learning the massive amount of things I don't know.

Also, that deadline on weeklybeats is quite the incentive for me and since I can't pull together a song in 3 hours, it so far has been a procrastination breaker (but doesn't seem to work that well with OP!).

Good luck!

Coming up with an idea isn't the problem, but implementing something - or starting something getting the ball rolling may take a solid day sometimes.

If I'm lucky, I get over that first day issue, and then thing's start to take form and I start to get tracks down in DAW, on paper, (in a cart), but I do find the direction the music takes changes form considerably after the ideas are formulated.

Find it difficult to reflect the ideas in reality sometimes.

Would say starting is the main issue,
Trying to combat that by
- Taking portable music devices with me everywhere, (NDS, LSDJ, Laptop with external 500GB *mirrored* drive where all my samples/stems/sets are) and take some headphones and a UMA25S (25 key midi keyboard with soundcard built-in) around with me.

Also Listening to stems and taking notes at work (Evernote!!) to try and stay focused on the creative task.

It's an ongoing battle - Interested in seeing how this forum post develops.