> A little planning goes a long way. Planning can be accomplished like any other task in exactly the same way. "I need to plan the Xyzzy presentation, am I rea

> A little planning goes a long way. Planning can be accomplished like any other task in exactly the same way. "I need to plan the Xyzzy presentation, am I ready to do this?" <consult gut feeling> "Yes, let's give it a go. What sorts of information am I going to need?" And go about your plan. "Planning" can be just the thing your subconscious has decided a particular task needs. At this point it's no longer a task, but rather a project, and gets 'filed' differently in my mind. For each project, the first thing I do is decide what constitutes "done" for that project. I may be ready for the task of making that decision or my subconscious might decide I'm not ready for even that step yet. From the conception of done I can then create a road map from here to done. Road maps have tasks, each task gets accomplished individually in the same subconscious-driven fashion. The road map isn't typically written down, it exists in my mind 'somewhere'. A lot of times, subconscious 'nopes' alert me to the fact that there's something wrong with the road map or the approach. One of the keys to making this work is to prioritize learning. Every nope contains a lesson, one of the reasons I let things go as long as they need to is so that I can give the subconscious space to bring these lessons to awareness. I consider the lessons to be more important than task completion in all but truly urgent and pressing issues.