I find it best to start with a mixture of obsessive listmaking and jumping right in with some part of the project that looks exceptionally fun.

I think the latter part of this statement is what will work best for me. Maybe the first part, too, if this listmaking is about what needs to be done rather than describing the work itself (as I mentioned to miss_chance above, I think getting too much into detail about the work itself steals my enthusiasm).

Thanks, Scott!