@Mussar, would be cool to hear some of those tricks 
They're the same tricks you'll find in most youtube tutorials or "workflow optimization" lectures -
1. Analyze a lot of other people's music to see how they construct their tracks and to steal their chord progressions for later use (I have a little notebook that I've been filling with progressions from classical music and jazz lately, for example). Copy down their basic song structure (i.e. 16 bar intro, 12 bar verse, 8 bar chorus, etc.) so if you're ever feeling uninspired you can just put down that arrangement skeleton and use it as a reference.
2. Practice iterative production and subtractive arrangement - if you can't get a great loop going on your first try, don't try to get a great loop going. Just build a mediocre loop, then duplicate it out and test out variations on that until something cooler comes up. If it's not interesting enough yet, just duplicate it out and make a few more minor changes. Alternately, keep stacking related ideas on top of each other for the same 4, 8, or 16 bar loop until it sounds like there's probably one or two elements that are pushing it over the top into the realm of "too busy." Then just duplicate out that loop until you've filled up however long your arrangement should be. Usually you'll get a feeling, but don't be afraid to just copy the length of another song or pick the arbitrary 3:15-3:45 "made for radio" duration. Once you have that, mark off the arrangement and just delete whatever shouldn't be in those sections. No drums in the breakdown, no bassline in the intro or outro, etc. You'd be amazed at how much faster you'll get to a finished track just by practicing the subtractive arrangement concept.
3. Stockpile ideas, even without creating songs. Devote time just to writing chord progressions or melodies or drum loops that you can save on your hard drive for later. Set aside time specifically to design bass patches and create an archive of sampled one shots and reverb tails and white noise sweeps with different automations and lengths and all that good stuff. Go through all your old projects and gut them for spare parts - Synth presets, FX chains, even musical content (best with unreleased and abandoned music, obviously). I know Deadmau5 for example can bring a lot of his tracks together extremely quickly just because he has folders upon folders of MIDI files that he's written and saved - once he's ready for arranging and orchestrating he can just drag and drop.
There's probably more, but these will probably be a good place to start.
Ninja Edit: To echo what ZAU said, it really is all a matter of practice. The more focused and direct effort you put into achieving your goal, the greater the returns on your work. Don't just dick around in you DAW trying to write a song - plan your actions, then follow through on those plans.
