5. Embrace maintenance and your future-self will thank you for it.
I've really become a convert to the "think of your future-self" mindset. It basically boils down to if you stop and think about whether or not a task will be harder for your future self than it is for your present self, then you should do it and save yourself the added struggle in the future. An example I like to use is this, will washing out the sauce pan you made dinner with now be easier to do than it would be to clean tomorrow (or, let's get real, in a few days from now) after all the food has caked on to at you have spend three times as much time and energy cleaning it?
Doing maintenance work like the tasks I've talked about above will make life easier on your future-self. I think that we lazy people are pretty selfish. I mean, I'm just calling it like I see it. I know that when I don't want to do something it is because I don't want leave the comfort of the couch to put in the effort to do it even though it needs to get done and I like the outcome of having it done. So while we may try to motivate our lazy asses with thoughts of others (spouses, kids, roommates, whatever), lazy people are selfish at their core. And I don't mean in a bad way. I'd give my right arm to make sure that no one I loved ever suffered again in their lifetimes, but I don't want to take out the trash because I'm comfortable right now and that would require me to put on pants. So if we change the motivation from outward to inward, that might be the best tactic there is for us lazy souls. What's five minutes today if that means I get an extra 30 minutes of lazy time tomorrow? See? Now THAT'S motivating.