Morendil comments on Useful maxims - Less Wrong
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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...