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Beginning a project is more fun than finishing it. This is because making bad decisions is more fun than living with their consequences.
I fail to understand what you mean by this.
In my experience, most long-term projects have bad decisions made at some point during their execution. Making these decisions is not nearly as painful as living with their consequences. Therefore, in the absence of other factors, the fun level involved in any given project will usually trend downwards as time progresses.

It's just a random thought, don't read too much into it... =)
I find that it's fun because when you're planning you focus on the end result. Your brain fools itself into ignoring the 'make the shirts' part of the thought 'I'll make the shirts so that you can wear them on top of each other, that way I can wear a cool shirt over a long sleeve and it will look sweet'. You only hear 'it will look sweet' bit.
When you finally have the shirts made up and the system functioning correctly, you don't care because you've been starring at the same gray long sleeve shirt for the past hour trying to get it to display correctly under all forms of short sleeve shirts.

Like the thought 'if I stay late at work every night I'll make twice as much' doesn't really hit you until you're sitting at work, dead tired, watching the seconds tick down so you can go home, sleep then do it again.
Crispy... I don't know how else to contact you, I have left a post on your forum, and I'd like some help.
I fail to make hard decisions, which is why I seldom get things completed. :(
Yeah, I suffer from that too.

Think of it this way: Not making a decision is a decision in itself. So if you're faced with Option A and Option B, and both of them seem equally good, remember that you also have an Option C, which is not choosing. If Option C is worse than the other two (and it often is), then the worst thing you can do is nothing (since that's Option C). So a reasonable course of action is just to randomly pick either of Option A or B, in the interests of getting something done.

In short, action is generally preferable to inaction. See for example the Mayhem Intergalactic naming saga. I realised I was choosing Option C, so I just made a decision and stuck with it.
In any black-or-white decision, you really have a wide number of choices:

1) Choose the black option.
2) Choose the white option.
3) Choose an option randomly.
4) Choose neither option / fail to choose an option.
5) Choose both options, if conceivably possible.

Nevertheless, sticking to choices 1, 2, and 3 does sound like a good policy. I know I tend towards choices 4 and 5 quite a lot more than I should.
Right. But you can also be too hasty, picking choice 1 when choice 2 would be much more preferable. You need to strike a balance between decisiveness and hesitancy.
Crispy wrote:
Yeah, I suffer from that too.

Think of it this way: Not making a decision is a decision in itself. So if you're faced with Option A and Option B, and both of them seem equally good, remember that you also have an Option C, which is not choosing. If Option C is worse than the other two (and it often is), then the worst thing you can do is nothing (since that's Option C). So a reasonable course of action is just to randomly pick either of Option A or B, in the interests of getting something done.

However deciding "Not deciding" is an option in itself, is also a decision ...