[rmhsilva]

> The key for me is to remove the psychological barriers to starting a particular task.

Agreed. And one solution is, as you say, writing down a concrete action. The task is suddenly something you can hold in your head, and easily completely mentally.

Procrastination, at least for me, happens whenever I can't see an end to the task, usually because I haven't properly defined the task. As soon as there is a well defined set of steps to take, it suddenly becomes much easier to not procrastinate.

Procrastination is my brain's way of telling me it's not happy with the plan I've made, and that the goals I've set need to be re-written to be more achievable (in particular, more SMART [1]).

That said, projects like this are great, and definitely help with enumerating and planning!

[1] https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/smart-goals.php