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Has anyone considered that this guy is just tired? Tired and overwhelmed with the expectations he has created for himself. You'll never get anything done unless you give up on all your planning and anticipation. You're committed to driving yourself too hard, and some part of you is too smart to make that mistake. You've set the bar so high that failure is inevitable, and you've subconsciously picked the easiest way to fail.

Solution: don't spend the week fantasizing and setting up absurd expectations. Resist planning; resist even thinking about it. When the weekend comes, you want to be free to follow your own initiative. You don't want to wake up on Saturday morning with your entire weekend already scripted out. Too depressing! On Saturday morning, just start working at a relaxed pace and see where the work takes you.

If you want to go balls-out on the weekend, find some way to slack off during the week. Not recommended if you have a reasonable day job that you'd like to keep.



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