t The "implied next action" is a particularly insidious task list antipattern that is constantly tripping me up.
A few months ago, I noticed an odd brown discoloration on my pinky. It looked sort of like a paint splash, but didn't wash off (it was clearly under the skin). After a week or so, my wife became concerned and wanted me to have it tested. I put a task on my task list:
"@Phone: Call Doctor re: appt for finger"
Despite the fact this was clearly an important task that I was receiving plenty of external motivation to complete, it languished on my task list. Eventually, I concluded that the strange discoloration was caused by a broken blood vessel from martial arts. However, I was still disturbed that a clearly important task had set on my list, overdue, for so long. In a moment of downtime, I spent a few minutes thinking about it and came to the conclusion it was caused by probably the most common task list issue: it wasn't a next action. Whenever I thought about calling the doctor to schedule the appointment, the question in my head was, "Should I talk to my GP first, or go straight to a dermatologist?" If the answer was dermatologist, I didn't have a recommendation for a good doctor or a phone number, so that was a project in and of itself. As a result, the task languished.
Be sure to regularly scan your next action list for tasks that, on the surface are next actions, but are actually blocked.
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