Suffocating by my own ideas

It's always been like that: a new idea came in, and I would write it somewhere, and then start daydreaming of all the cool things that would happen after that initial idea was successful.

I could make lists upon lists of these, it was somewhat satisfying but most importantly, safe. It was risk-free to just continue to jot down ideas and how I would have evolved it, in very detailed ways. But I didn't just remove the downsides, I also removed all the possibility of upsides.

Worst part, it was oddly satisfying, cause it FELT like progress, but I was just in motion

To make things even worse, I had spent years of my career getting better and better at anticipating future problems and how worst-case scenarios unfold, it is a great skill when doing software consulting and designing software architectures, but it crippled into my personal life and made my think of all the obstacles I would face in the future before starting anything, it becase a paralizing thing.

Had I spent 10% of this productivity-masturbation actually doing things, I would have a much better track record to show, but hey, better late than never, huh?

Starting this year, I forced myself out of this habit. I stopped writing down everything, is was not helpful in any way, just distracting. It even helped me to really scan something to worth it before ever writing it down.

Now I let ideas come and go, I no longer fear of losing them, and if they come back it's a sign there's something maybe worth checking