motivate me

How do i motivate myself to work? No seriously, how? Just kidding. Or am i?
My problem (just for the brief? hmmm) is when i'm sat at home, and i have a variety of possible distractions around me, how do i motivate myself to ignore it all and just get down to work? When deadlines seem like a far off thing, where does that push come from to knuckle down and not procrastinate? And that, fair people, is my question, nay, my problem.

So, what am i going to do about it? Well i've broken the reason we students do work down to two main things - pleasure and pain. On a long term basis we want a good job, job security, money, to do some thing we like - pleasure. Or to stop ourselves getting into a dead-end job, poor pay, being bored - pain. Short term, we like the work, we enjoy it, to get good grades (pleasure) or the opposite, to aviod bad grades or a rollicking (pain). From day to day then, when there are no deadlines pressing, and there are plenty of other more enjoyable activities available, there needs to be some kind of motivator. I'm thinking this should be some kind of incentive (pleasure) or some sort of punishment system.

How am i to do this? Hmmm well as for form, i'm not quite sure. It really has to be personal, self contained and self monitoring, so kind of a fun way to handle out of college hours time. The usual comes to mind, bedroom poster, handbook, etc. Maybe some kind of buddy system to do with your mates? i don't know as yet.