&gt; A little planning goes a long way.<p>Planning can be accomplished like any other task in exactly the same way. &quot;I need to plan the Xyzzy presentation, am I ready to do this?&quot; &lt;consult gut feeling&gt; &quot;Yes, let&#x27;s give it a go. What sorts of information am I going to need?&quot; And go about your plan.<p>&quot;Planning&quot; can be just the thing your subconscious has decided a particular task needs. At this point it&#x27;s no longer a task, but rather a project, and gets &#x27;filed&#x27; differently in my mind. For each project, the first thing I do is decide what constitutes &quot;done&quot; for that project. I may be ready for the task of making that decision or my subconscious might decide I&#x27;m not ready for even that step yet.<p>From the conception of done I can then create a road map from here to done. Road maps have tasks, each task gets accomplished individually in the same subconscious-driven fashion. The road map isn&#x27;t typically written down, it exists in my mind &#x27;somewhere&#x27;.<p>A lot of times, subconscious &#x27;nopes&#x27; alert me to the fact that there&#x27;s something wrong with the road map or the approach.<p>One of the keys to making this work is to prioritize learning. Every nope contains a lesson, one of the reasons I let things go as long as they need to is so that I can give the subconscious space to bring these lessons to awareness. I consider the lessons to be more important than task completion in all but truly urgent and pressing issues.