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This unfortunately describes me too much. Any ideas on overcoming it (please don't say "just do it")?
by manico 17y ago
This unfortunately describes me too much. Any ideas on overcoming it (please don't say "just do it")?
- mechanical_fish 17y agoplease don't say "just do it" Okay. Read another book! ;) (I wonder if I still have Matt Groening's Life in Hell cartoon about grad school, in which he describes this sentence as an all-purpose recipe for avoiding working on your thesis.)
- Dilpil 17y agoYou have just outlined the simplest, most direct way to overcome it.
- patio11 17y agoRescale your expectations/plans/schedule such that shipping is easier than not shipping. My business started with an 8 day deadline, largely because I thought if it was longer it would end like all of my other private projects, with several months spent on research, filling out notebooks, and grand plans followed by a failure to follow through. I figured if it was just 8 days that it would be easier to finish rather than telling Dad et al "Yep, that ended up not going anywhere". Three years later...
- raffi 17y agoMake a list before starting. Break it down into small tasks. Or at the very least break the overwhelming task down into smaller milestones, set deadlines for those, plan the living daylights out of the first milestone, get started, and repeat.
- TobiasCassell 17y agoPartner with someone who thinks more linear.
- billswift 17y agoI made a poster (actually, I've made several) years ago trying to get myself moving - the one your comment reminded me of is: Commit through Action : Do It! That one has actually helped as a reminder, but I keep falling back into studying instead of doing.