If you want to avoid this habit, then don’t dignify it with the name of “identity crafting”. It’s really just fantasizing through the use of to-do lists, which does nothing other than to pile up tasks on your future self. (In fact there is another, connotationally worse, commonly accepted name for this practice, but I’d rather err on the side of not offending you.) To craft an identity for yourself involves, at least partly, getting to be that person sooner or later.
You don’t actually want to do these things, the sooner you realize this the better; you want to have done them. (If you wanted to do them, then you would have gone ahead and done them.) In this situation, either you abandon yourself to something you intrinsically like to do, or find a way to overcome this problem. And to overcome this problem, you need to… sorry to not be of much help… have overcome some of it. Get the ball rolling, so to speak. It’s a matter of inertia.
If you want to avoid this habit, then don’t dignify it with the name of “identity crafting”. It’s really just fantasizing through the use of to-do lists, which does nothing other than to pile up tasks on your future self. (In fact there is another, connotationally worse, commonly accepted name for this practice, but I’d rather err on the side of not offending you.) To craft an identity for yourself involves, at least partly, getting to be that person sooner or later.
You don’t actually want to do these things, the sooner you realize this the better; you want to have done them. (If you wanted to do them, then you would have gone ahead and done them.) In this situation, either you abandon yourself to something you intrinsically like to do, or find a way to overcome this problem. And to overcome this problem, you need to… sorry to not be of much help… have overcome some of it. Get the ball rolling, so to speak. It’s a matter of inertia.