Spurred into inaction
I’m beginning to think I’m incapable of organizing even the most simple tasks. The other day I was standing by the kettle making a cup of tea, and the 2 next actions in this “mid-morning snack” project were “get milk from fridge” and “get biscuits from cupboard”. (OK, I didn’t actually set it up as a proper GTD project… that would be weird. Although maybe I should have…)
The fridge and the appropriate cupboard are in totally opposite directions. So instead of arbitrarily picking one, I found myself doing a bizarre shuffle where I took half a step towards the fridge, came back, took half a step towards the cupboard… and then did the same thing again, in the space of about a second. I think I’ve got procrastination down to a fine art.