Sure, it’s a standard defense mechanism. The particular mental model you are describing, the ‘living in the future’ model, is often used by people on extreme en

Sure, it’s a standard defense mechanism. The particular mental model you are describing, the ‘living in the future’ model, is often used by people on extreme ends to justify all types of bad behavior in the present. They begin to rationalize simple things like procrastinating, because ‘it won’t be like this in the future, so I am absolved of my actions in the present’. The OP is effectively saying ‘I don’t have to do any work, because in the future I will have the perfect idea that will be worth working on’. That’s the root issue that needs to be tackled, plenty of other posters have given frameworks for doing so (breaking things down, etc). But we must keep the root cause in mind, because it will always pop up in other scenarios, e.g ‘It’s okay if I never followed up with this girl/guy, because one day I’ll meet a better girl/guy’, or, ‘I don’t have to care too much about this person, because he/she won’t be around in a few months’, etc. It’s all part of the same framework, be vigilant.