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🤔 ▶️ How do I get unstuck in a project?
🤔 ▶️ How do I get unstuck in a project?
Daniele Catalanotto avatar
Written by Daniele Catalanotto
Updated over a year ago

My two cents

Here are two methods that will help you to break up with procrastination and get your project unstuck.

  1. Natural planning.

  2. The: "what if this was easy?" question.

Natural Planning

Natural planning is something that is taught by David Allen in his book: Getting Things Done, or GTD.

It has five steps and five questions that you have to answer.

  1. Purpose: Why am I doing this? What are the guiding principles?

  2. Vision and outcome: What would success look like?

  3. Brainstorming: How would I accomplish this?

  4. Organising: What are the components, events, sequences, and tasks? When do I do these things, and in which order?

  5. Next action: Where do I start now?

I have these questions in a Notion template so that whenever I get stuck, I can just open the template, and all the questions are already in, and I answer them.

A screenshot of a notion template with the natural planning questions

Usually, what happens is that already after the second question, I feel so much unstuck and feel much more motivated to get something done.

What if this was easy?

Another technique from another guy called Tim Ferriss is the question: "What if this was easy?" I find that it's a very good complement to the first method.

When you're planning a project, you want the best outcome. Therefore, you might think in a very complicated way.

The question: What if this was easy? brings you back down to earth. It forces you to think: If I would do that just in one hour, without a budget, what would I do?

This definitely helps me to get my priorities right.

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