Inaction mode.

Inaction: planning, thinking, talking, web surfing, gossiping, streaming, social media, etc. [different modes of procrastination]

Action: writing, designing, publishing, shipping, getting things done.

Inaction is a time-sink. It can take hours and we have nothing to show at the end of it. When we complain about not having enough time, we are spending most of our time in inaction mode.

We expect to shift from inaction to action automatically but that's not how it works. By default, inaction will almost always take over.

The shift requires us to overcome the emotional threshold and place ourselves in a position to get things done.

“There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.”

Steven Pressfield, The War of Art