Sounds like we're much the same, there. Once I get started doing something, I often have the inspiration to do a bit more, or get started on that blocked thing that's looming.
I've learned that for me, "not having the energy to start" is usually a matter of ambition, and in particular undecided ambition. So, a good way to get started is to make a decision on the ambition. That can be ambition for the work itself (i.e., "what do I want with this presentation?", "is this a routine job or something to stun the audience?", etc.), and it can be the ambition for how much to achieve right now.
I might not have the energy to take the plunge for that report for the board, but I decide to find the one from last quarter and make a structure template from that. Once that's done, I can maybe persuade myself to go through the sections and add some notes to each of them. And so on. Breaking things down that way helps a lot. And, as you say, it allows mixing with other things.
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Date: 2007-03-15 11:03 am (UTC)I've learned that for me, "not having the energy to start" is usually a matter of ambition, and in particular undecided ambition. So, a good way to get started is to make a decision on the ambition. That can be ambition for the work itself (i.e., "what do I want with this presentation?", "is this a routine job or something to stun the audience?", etc.), and it can be the ambition for how much to achieve right now.
I might not have the energy to take the plunge for that report for the board, but I decide to find the one from last quarter and make a structure template from that. Once that's done, I can maybe persuade myself to go through the sections and add some notes to each of them. And so on. Breaking things down that way helps a lot. And, as you say, it allows mixing with other things.