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Pillage then burn!
More seriously, the things you don't want to do right now are probably the things that you should be doing. Works for me.
I don't want to repeatedly punch myself in the face with a large hammer. I suggest that your maxim may need a small asterisk indicating that a certain amount of pre-selection has happened. :)
Perhaps "the things you want to do some time, but not right now."
More like, "the things you want to have done, but don't necessarily want to do."
That too has at least one counterexample. Many people want to have written a book, while very few want to write a book. Yet, I'm not sure I would advise everyone in the first category that the optimal decision is to embark on the effort.
Every generalisation has at least one counterexample.
Except for that one! Wait a minute...