3 kinds of tasks.

1. Go or No-Go Decisions: Are we shipping this or not? Can we make a non-emotional decision? If we are shipping it, when do we ship?
2. Shifting work from ambiguous to specific: Now that we have decided that we are going to ship it, what do the specific tasks look like? What does it look like when it's done? What are the choices to be made?
3. Shipping the specific tasks: And now, finally, when we have non-ambiguous time bound tasks, we can focus on getting them done instead of second guessing whether we should do them or not.

Segregating these 3 kinds of tasks is the key to effortless productivity.