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Ironically, there's also the danger of getting a mental reward for describing something you'll going to do. I.e. the mind crosses off the actual doing part as "solved", as it's only the "mundane part of execution" that is left to do. Might as well leave that as an exercise for the hearer/reader...

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I fell in this trap often, so to avoid it when I decided to launch a magazine, I also took an action at the same time, one that would make it difficult to back out: I sent emails to experts asking for an interview, telling them it was for a magazine I was launching. It worked for me, but not every project might have such an action to go with it.

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