Exploiting Productivity Momentum

Thanks for sharing. I'll list down 3 things to accomplish tomorrow as the author mentioned. Let's see how this works, ;)

There’s a twist to this that I didn’t appreciate until recently. Productivity momentum only kicks in when you’re confident of success. Otherwise, the half-finished work just sits there and stares at you. I think the people who best capture this quirk is the team from Basecamp, when they say that ‘work is like a hill’:

Every piece of work has two phases. First there’s the uphill phase of figuring out what our approach is and what we’re going to do. Then, once we can see all the work involved, there’s the downhill phase of execution.