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The connection between "wants to do" and "actually does" isn't straightforward. One can desire to do something, and yet procrastinate; so increasing desire isn't necessarily helpful. Also, there is this concept of "structured procrastination" where people do something (useful) to avoid doing something else (more important), so the second most important thing actually has a greater chance to be done than the most important one.