Most of my commits end up being "Yep" or "more stuff" or "Fixing tests". But before I make a pull request and/or push the branch to my remote, I squash them all

Most of my commits end up being "Yep" or "more stuff" or "Fixing tests". But before I make a pull request and/or push the branch to my remote, I squash them all together and What you're saying about planning out/writing out what to do before the code, however, is still great advice. I end up doing that in the ticket description so I know what I'm doing before I touch any code.