Work on What's in Front of You

From "Art and Fear" by David Bayles and Ted Orland,

"Designer Charles Eames... used to complain good-naturedly that he evoted only about 1% of his energy to conceiving a design--and the remaining 99% to holding on to it as the project ran its course...After all, your imagination is free to race a hundred works ahead, conceiving pieces you could and perhaps should and maybe one day will execute--but not today, not in the piece at hand.  All you can work on today is directly in front of you.  Your job is to develop an imagination of the possible."