Nice article! I'm not involved in animation, but a lot of what you said crosses domains into other areas, particularly your steps 5 and 6, procrastination and problem-framing.

I'm a procrastinator too. I keep telling myself that I'll stop... tomorrow.

Albert Einstein once said “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions," and I think that holds true everywhere. Before diving into an issue, whether it's an animation, or a photograph, blog article, etc, frame the issue in your mind first. Understand it. Once you understand it, the rest will fall into place.

Thanks for sharing!