Why Replanning Is Sticky
Once you've started a planning session, it compounds. You reorganize one area, which surfaces another area that could be cleaner, which suggests a priority worth reconsidering. The session has no natural end point - you can always improve the plan.
Execution, by contrast, has clear endpoints. You can finish a task. The session terminates.
Planning is the safer, more comfortable, perpetually improvable alternative to starting the actual work. And it produces just enough reward signal to feel like it's worth continuing.
The Fix: Separate Planning Time from Execution Time Completely
The solution isn't to plan less. It's to plan at a different time.
If the plan exists before you sit down to work, there's no planning surface available when the work session starts. The session opens, the first task is already there, and the only action is execution. There is nothing to reorganize because the organizing already happened.
This is why "prepare tomorrow's tasks the night before" consistently outperforms "plan in the morning when you sit down to work." The morning version allows replanning. The evening version delivers a sealed plan to your future self.