[nnq]

YUCK! ...this is one of those things that works great for a group of people bu completely sucks for another group: for me having "a blank piece of paper" in front of me is the most motivating thing ever (I always have a zillion things in my head or on my lists that I want to work on, so the only problem is ordering them and trying to do as much as I can with my limited time, physical energy and for some tasks money). Sometimes I even literally take a blank piece of paper and stare at it while meditating because it's exactly what puts me in the mood to start working on things. and I literally LOVE an almost empty desk or a completely empty desktop with no programs open.

...but I know there are the opposite kind o people, like fellow programmers that love debugging but are just "stuck" if they have to start from scratch (I'm the opposite, I hate debugging and working on projects started by other people, but I'm incredibly productive at starting from a blank whiteboard or imagining things from nothing)