Escape to the TO DO list

I have a long list of things to do, including buying flowers to the balcony, repairing a suitcase (or rather find someone who can) and talking to the gym manager responsible for group training. But what I really should be doing is drafting a web site, writing a strawman for a brochure and design a seminar that is so splendid that the conference organiser can't resist it. That's what I should be doing.

A school example of modern procrastination where the threshold for the big, important tasks is so high that the need to rest before even starting is impossible to resist. To compensate for doing nothing, you fall in the trap of doing smaller, unrelated tasks to at least tick some things off the list. The old matrix on urgency and importance comes to mind. So... off to flower shop or not?