Sounds like classic Fear Of Failure to me. The longer you procrastinate, the more is riding on your "perfect" solution or performance, and the more daunting the

Sounds like classic Fear Of Failure to me. The longer you procrastinate, the more is riding on your "perfect" solution or performance, and the more daunting the project becomes. You need to realize that failure is allowed, and that it's forward movement that matters. Alwasy try, then learn from the outcome. If you learn you never truly "fail". To gain confidence, you need to power through by sheer force of will. A few tricks may help: 1. Decompose your tasks. Then decompose them more. Keep breaking down tasks into absurdly small pieces until they seem less intimidating. Then force yourself to do them, one at a time. If you can't, break it down more. "I will create an empty database." "I will list the first table I need to create." "I will fill out 5 columns in that table." "If I miss a column it's ok and I'll fix it later." "I will get my build environment running, and displaying hello world." "I will log into the database." etc etc etc. 2. Time limits. "I promise I will work on this thing for 1 hour, with no distractions, and then I am allowed to..."