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Our good friend Dave Seah has done it again, and just in time for all of your new side projects. I'm trying out his new Task Project Tracker to help monitor my progress on things. It looks pretty cool, you should check it out…

Intellectually, I know that it just takes determination, putting one foot in front of the other over and over again, until victory is just over the next foothill. But any good procrastinator worth his salt has the uncanny ability to previsualize all the minutia that goes into a project, estimating with astonishing candor every bit of time, effort, heartbreak and disappointment it takes before anyone gets to sip from the Chalice of Higher Achievement. So taking that first step is awfully hard. When my faithful Tivo is stuffed to the gills with good TV and is just a remote-control click away, my resolve falters. Laziness, as they say, always pays off right now.

I almost fell out of my chair when I realized that this was also the key:

Make achievement pay off right now, not later!

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