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I let them pile up into a big anxious horror too repulsive to even approach until absolutely necessary, at which point I sloppily and with great frustration do the very least I can to somehow postpone the ever-escalating disaster that will be my personal undoing.

You mean you think there's another way?

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Thank you, my big anxious horror was relieved by knowing I'm not the only one.

Shit. I did not think I was the only one, but I have many people around me who make it seem like 'it is just something you do in between' and was worried that was reality. Thank you for formulating that.

To say it in less poetic English than OP; I just don't do them (well, a bit, but could've just as well not've done them) in the end. But do stress about them first.

The same way I attend to the tasks I'm delegated at work: do the bare minimum necessary to get the product out the door while the maintenance and housecleaning pile up to the point I can't ignore it and then do the bare minimum necessary to control that bit of chaos.

This is also how I approach the relationship with my life-in partner.

With enough caffeine, and the bare minimum of sleep, I believe we can, collectively, run the planet like this till the wheels fall off. Or, at least, that does seem to be human's modus operandi.

I like how this thread is supposed to be for good advice, but you just described 90% of the people here.

I also am a huge fan of Seven Habits of Highly Defective People! It changed my life.

Great description of a typical project managament environment. You need to add something in regards of demotivation etc.

just delete the spreadsheet

oh good, its not just me then...

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