Laziness/procrastination has a kind of independent momentum to it. When you're having an off day, even if you consciously commit to getting back on track, the rut tends to find its way back to you within a couple of hours. I list three different courses of action you can take to get out of a laziness death spiral.
This post is for overthinkers. Really it's about a specific kind of overthinking; we could call it "over-managing." It's when you know what you should be working on at a given time, but instead of doing the work, you continue to deliberate over big-picture / planning decisions. I call this pattern of thought the "Manager." By contrast, the "Employee" does most of the hands-on work without worrying about the big picture, thanks to the Manager's direction. As productive generalists, we have to be good Managers, but we also need to be able to call the plan "good enough" and be the Employee.
Some "generalists" are really natural specialists who suffer from fears or weird pressures that cause them to behave like generalists. So we wonder, "Am I living like a generalist because it's in my nature, or am I doing it in reaction to something negative?" Are you a True Generalist, deep down?