Another: break hard things into small enough steps (and possibly write them down so you can forget all but the one you are working on). If the next step is har

Another: break hard things into small enough steps (and possibly write them down so you can forget all but the one you are working on). If the next step is hard, break it into small steps, etc. And pray humbly & with willingness to be obedient. Things always go better for me this way. (It helps to have a good tool to handle the capturing and rearranging of collections of steps for various kinds of work in progress. I use the one I wrote, AGPL; in my profile.) (Thoughtful comments appreciated with any downvotes; thanks.)