What, specifically, are you trying to do for this startup? What tasks, specifically, are you failing to do for this startup?<p>Many people I know who have vague dreams of eventually opening a business -- and I count myself as of four years ago -- have no actual plan as to what they are doing, what the next step is, etc etc. It is very easy to fail at ill-defined goals: If I write "Improve my software somehow" in my to-do list for this weekend I'm quite likely to find everything else expand to fill all available time, if I write "Implement the achievement system and deploy it live" I have a clear goal and success/failure conditions which I can use to evaluate progress. (That was my task last Sunday and the Sunday before last, too, but I know exactly why it isn't done yet rather than just being surprised that it hasn't magicked itself up.)<p>After you get in the habit of making clear goals, I suggest making smaller goals with shorter steps. Long-term planning for me is a bunch of short-term plans strung together, and items on the list typically take a few hours or a day of work for me and then a week of calendar time. Even I can sustain concentration for a few hours at a time. Then I deploy it live, start working on the next goal, and check back in a week when the notebook tells me to. (This is perhaps a little peculiar to the rhythms of my business: I only routinely get uninterrupted time on the weekends, and one adaptation I've made to that constraint is that I A/B test extensively, so during the work-week my site just passively collects stats for analysis the following weekend.)