[sriggs]

I'm am a programmer and a musician and both have that same issue. I struggled with it for a long time and I thought it was frustrating and inspiration sapping to try to pre-define my creative work. Then one day I read a post somewhere that stated something like this....

"The next action is meant to capture where you left off so you don't lose your place. Next actions move so fast that it is next to impossible to list them all as you go."

So given that, now I make a project for the creative thing (for example: Learn Paso Doble) so I know I have something that needs to be completed. I practice the music and then I stop to do other things. I know the next thing I have to do is read through the last page of the piece so I make a next action "Read through the last page of Paso Doble" (Context of "Home" because I practice at home) in my "Learn Paso Doble" project and I'm all good.

When I come back to read the last page, I may go much further and work on technique and all kinds of other things not on my list. Again, when I'm done, I think about what I need to do next and put it on my list.