Before doing something, define and note down the connection this activity has to specific needs you have. For example, if I don't need to ride bicycle anywhere

Before doing something, define and note down the connection this activity has to specific needs you have. For example, if I don't need to ride bicycle anywhere, spending my weekend repairing my bicycle will leave me with a sense of having wasted a weekend. So when I was looking through my stale TODO list entries, I had hard time figuring out which need a bicycle repair would contribute to, and this was itself an indication of the problem ("why I never do that despite having thought of it so long ago"). In someone's words, "focus on activities which move the needle of your work". I believe graph-based task manager is the right tool to address this. This one is good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591311 My take on this is: https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki/Live-demo#task-decomposition-graph https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki/Live-demo#task-d... (also i have such graph for all of my personal needs, in Maslow's theory terms).