Yeah this is relatable and familiar. When I do this my next step is usually some flavor of “set aside some time for the task”—can be “I will work on this for the next pomo” or “I will set aside a day to work on this specifically” or “welp I guess I need to make an entire project of this/I think I will not make progress on this unless it is the ~main thing in my life”. For the medium- or larger-scale things, also “see if I can get other people in the loop”.
Will also note that one less intuitive type of task this can apply to is “deal with my emotions about this thing I’m trying to do”. Ideally this would happen trivially and I could just do the thing, but sometimes I notice I am stuck and then I need to add an action item of actually looking at the emotional blocker before I can proceed. (And sometimes the emotional blockers are large enough to turn into their own project.)
oh also, another next step is “see if I can make this task more pleasant/tolerable”. (sometimes “assign this task more time and recruit help” helps achieve this too. but there can also be separate steps like “fix any current sensory annoyances” and “make some nice tea”)
Yeah this is relatable and familiar. When I do this my next step is usually some flavor of “set aside some time for the task”—can be “I will work on this for the next pomo” or “I will set aside a day to work on this specifically” or “welp I guess I need to make an entire project of this/I think I will not make progress on this unless it is the ~main thing in my life”. For the medium- or larger-scale things, also “see if I can get other people in the loop”.
Will also note that one less intuitive type of task this can apply to is “deal with my emotions about this thing I’m trying to do”. Ideally this would happen trivially and I could just do the thing, but sometimes I notice I am stuck and then I need to add an action item of actually looking at the emotional blocker before I can proceed. (And sometimes the emotional blockers are large enough to turn into their own project.)
oh yeah, mood. in particular when you got 5 knots in your heart that have cyclical dependencies for unraveling.
oh also, another next step is “see if I can make this task more pleasant/tolerable”. (sometimes “assign this task more time and recruit help” helps achieve this too. but there can also be separate steps like “fix any current sensory annoyances” and “make some nice tea”)