1. Pretend you're working on something important while secretly browsing cat videos.
2. Claim you're trying to learn something while actually learning the plot of the latest soap opera.
3. Forget you were ever planning to start and just wing it.
4. Declare it's done when it's not and hope no one asks for details.
5. Shift the goalposts so you're never actually working towards the original goal.
6. Replace planning with organizing your digital files
7. Declare you're just tightening the belt and hope it somehow relates to productivity.
8. Claim you were never actually committed and pretend it was just a wild hypothetical.
9. Shift the blame to someone else who's somehow responsible for the lack of progress.