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Basically, easier goals > hard goals if we’re struggling with procrastination. Especially if we’ve worked 0 hours on our most important task for the last few weeks.
But it’s easier to give advice than to take it myself.
It is easier to give advice than to take it yourself
Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield. Says the difference between a pro and an amateur is that pros concentrate on the real work (like buckling down to write the next book), while amateurs spend most of their time doing fake work like marketing or researching new gear. Fake work can be important and useful, but it should take up less than 10% of your time if you really want to go pro.
If you try to find time for your most valued activities by first dealing with all the other important demands on your time, in the hope that there’ll be some left over at the end, you’ll be disappointed. From Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman If you expect there to be time and energy at the end of the day for your daily highlight you are setting yourself up for failure