Each person will constantly be assaulted by waves of feelings that will impede their ability to plan audacious, purpose-focused goals and execute the highest priority tasks toward those ends.
As you conduct your planning sessions early in the morning, at the end of a day, or whenever else you are best disposed to have the greatest optimism and hope, you will always have a daily to do list that places you on the firmest possible foundation to fight the emotional battles of each day.
As you work through each day, use the granularity of your to do list as an asset in the battle against unhelpful emotions. It will be much easier to convince yourself to keep moving with a specific task at hand, consisting of a particularly focused action for a limited amount of time, than it would be to pursue some open-ended generic work.