Overcoming procrastination and motivating yourself to complete important tasks can be difficult. The document provides five steps to help motivate yourself: 1) Have an imagination and commitment to your goals, 2) Stay committed to decisions but flexible in your approach, 3) Experience life's deepest joy through sincere and selfless contribution, 4) Use pain and pleasure to be in control of your life rather than letting them control you, 5) Identify problems but focus your energy on solutions. It also recommends zooming out to understand why a task matters to make it more appealing and potentially realize it's not worth bothering with.