I’ve done pretty much the same thing, but instead of time frames, I use “work chunks”.. It’s similar to your unit-based procrastination dash. This is a recent development, so who knows if I’ll stick to it, but this is what I’ve done: I would make it a point, for example, to set aside three or so topics that I want to write about. I would commit myself to writing just one article, then take a very short break, come back, and commit to the second article, and so forth. Before I knew it, I found that I was so jazzed that I was actually DOING shit, that I just began foregoing the small breaks and writing all three things in one sitting (they’re very short articles, in case anyone’s wondering. For longer articles, I’d divide it up into smaller chunks). I will admit that after doing this for about a couple hours, I get kinda tired, and take a rather longish break (this is unfortunately too easy when one works from home). But I try to get right back on it after that.

Your timing method will probably work really really well for organizing my unruly books and magazine collection though. And boy do I need help with that.