Organizations' problems can all be traced to someone not telling the right someone what had their attention, when it did. - David Allen

Ask any psychologist how much of a sense of past and future that part of your psyche has, the part that was storing the list that you dumped: zero. It's all present tense in there. ...[A]s soon as you tell yourself that you should do something, if you file it... in your short-term memory... part of you... thinks that you should be doing it all the time. ...[Y]ou've created instant and automatic stress and failure ...

Keys to getting things done: know what "done" means & what "doing" looks like.

[Y]ou must have a clear picture in your mind of what success would look, sound, and feel like.