#1 is key for me. Once I have the problem and course of action in mind, I can plug away easily. Otherwise I kind of flounder around, unless I purposefully foc

#1 is key for me. Once I have the problem and course of action in mind, I can plug away easily. Otherwise I kind of flounder around, unless I purposefully focus on figuring out what I need to do next. Also, I'd say 99% of advice is useless. People don't usually need to learn more effective ways of doing things. What they really lack is motivation and that's usually because they're trying to force themselves to do something they really think is pointless.