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Re:To-Do Lists Don't Work by whiddershins on Sunday September 29, 2013 @10:17AM (#6465222)
No, because, (and this is the trick for me) adding tasks and subtasks and planning is a completely separate activity and headspace. When I am doing that, I am in planning mode and I don't imagine how much it will suck to do a task. Just plan.

Then when I do, I just do.

Re:To-Do Lists Don't Work by tifareth on Sunday September 29, 2013 @11:00AM (#6465330)
This planning and review phase you describe is the first step in a GTD workflow.