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Thanks for sharing. I especially liked the leaving tasks 90% done. This is motivation for someone who has 1000 unfinished side projects to finish one tomorrow :)

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I found that one interesting too. I do something similar but different: I keep a bunch of “warmup tasks” around, basically easy, low-risk (usually coding) tasks that are 90% likely to be quick motivational boosts to get started in the morning. NGL this has occasionally backfired and something simple turned out to be not so simple at all :-)

> NGL this has occasionally backfired and something simple turned out to be not so simple at all :-)

In my case it often backfires in the form of a sudden decision, right or wrong, that yesterday-me made a bunch of bad decisions about something so they all need to be revisited. Before I know it, the thing that was 90% complete is now 60% complete.

> I try to leave a task 90% finished at the end of a working session. It feels slightly worse than closing out the work, but it makes starting the next day 10x easier.

Yeah, this one works incredibly well for me as well, and wasn't at all obvious until I saw it for the first time a few years ago.

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