I fully understand your pain. One thing that helped me overcome my paralysis was being more specific about what I was hoping to achieve in certain areas of my

I fully understand your pain. One thing that helped me overcome my paralysis was being more specific about what I was hoping to achieve in certain areas of my life. By intentionally limiting my scope, I found it much easier to make the right decisions. For example, learning to cook is a pretty general goal. You could spend a lot of time learning about baking ratios, classical French technique, molecular gastronomy, etc... Contrast that goal with a more specific one like learning to cook Chinese food in the Sichuan tradition. By limiting our scope, it becomes far more clear to us what we need to focus on to achieve our desired result. The realization that we cannot be/do/know everything is a seriously underrated epiphany. In order to excel at one thing we have to cut off other things, which isn't always easy to do. The really amazing thing about being specific with yourself is that the cloud of ambivalence suddenly becomes far less foggy. Once you understand your intentions and your destination, the question ceases to be "what do I feel like doing today?" and becomes "does this activity get me closer to my goal? Yes or no." The more specific you become in your goals, the clearer the path becomes to achieving them. An added bonus is that it generally takes less time to get there as well.