This unfortunately describes me too much. Any ideas on overcoming it (please don't say "just do it")?
My business started with an 8 day deadline, largely because I thought if it was longer it would end like all of my other private projects, with several months spent on research, filling out notebooks, and grand plans followed by a failure to follow through. I figured if it was just 8 days that it would be easier to finish rather than telling Dad et al "Yep, that ended up not going anywhere".
Three years later...
Commit through Action : Do It!
That one has actually helped as a reminder, but I keep falling back into studying instead of doing.
Okay. Read another book! ;)
(I wonder if I still have Matt Groening's Life in Hell cartoon about grad school, in which he describes this sentence as an all-purpose recipe for avoiding working on your thesis.)