How do you deal with procrastination?

Oh, no no no!!!   I hate, no detest, no loathe, writing cover letters, and honestly I have never heard of anybody that did like writing the cover letter.   So, good for you that you actually enjoy it.   To me, it's like tooting your own horn and all the while acting like you're doing nothing of the kind.  And the fact that all parties involved know intuitively that there is something inherently phony and false and disingenuous about the cover letter makes for an extremely uncomfortable and awkward premise for all parties involved, or rather I should say, for me... 

The cover letter I would LOVE to write would look something like this. 

 "Dear Hiring Manager:  I can perform the job duties as listed just fine.  I am a pleasant person and I'm sure I would get along well with most of my co-workers.  I promise never to be late unless it's an emergency, and then I would always call ahead of time.  Please hire me because I need to work so I can earn money and pay the bills and the job description sounds okay.  I really think I would like the job pretty well.  Thank you."

Now, that, to me, would be honest and forthright and genuine and sincere.  (And if I were the one doing the hiring, THIS might just be the cover letter that would make me want to hire the person on the spot.  It certainly would make a good impression on me.)  I just can't think of any job where I could write the cover letter that would not be transparent and obvious.  It's like you have to brag about yourself without sounding like you're bragging.  Uggghhh..... 

Just for the sake of having some perverse fun, sometime I think I might just want to enumerate - literally - all my life accomplishments, beginning at the age of twelve and have that be my cover letter.  I just have zero wherewithal in this area, and thank God I know this about myself.   For me, the cover letter is nothing less than a minefield of desperation.  I could never presume to write or say during the interview  "You should hire me because I am absolutely the most qualified person for the job."  Huh?  What?  Because unless there's a job out there where the primary qualification is knowledge of Oscar winners, pre-1985, or reciting dialogue verbatim from every episode of "Charlie's Angels",  I know without a doubt that I am nowhere near the most qualified person for the job.  The whole time I feel like "Oh, why are you asking me to pretend about all this?"  And it would be such a relief to be able to say these things.  Obviously your take on the cover letter is much different than mine, and I am genuinely happy for you that you enjoy it, but for me, I think of the cover letter as sanctioned lying.  

Like the question during the interview  "Why should I hire you?"  And I'm thinking to myself, "look, if you want to hire me, then hire me.  That would be great and I'm sure I would do a satisfactory job.  Just please don't ask me to try and compel you to hire me."   I'd rather just go ahead and arm wrestle with the person and get it over with.  The job interview - and by extension the cover letter - invokes a hostile environment from the very beginning.   In every cover letter I write, it feels like every other word I put down a grenade might go off.   It fills me with dread.   It's a lucky thing that there are very, very few things in life that bother me as much.    

Whew, I feel so much better about life now that I said all that!