Recently I've come to believe that figuring stuff out is what the ego does. Why? I think to reinforce it's point of view, or to prove something to you to make itself stronger, or even to distract you so you get stuck instead of taking action, which could threaten your view of yourself.
The tricky part is that deep down you don't need to know, because you already know. The whole act of figuring out is actually justification and comparison, which never has a truthful answer, just conjecture and opinion. This is just a trap so that you don't take any action and change anything so your ego can continue to exist. (By ego I mean your identity centred view of your beliefs and opinions). If you don't change then everything is good, and the easiest way to do that is to stall you with too much thinking.
The best way out of the trap is action, and there's really three types of action to be taken. First is deciding, which entails creating what is going to happen. After that, planning out how it's going to happen. Lastly, going through with the plan. The important thing is that these three activities must happen in order and have a timelimit on the first two. If you push yourself out of the thinking and into the doing, you won't have time to deliberate. Set aside enough time to make a decent plan, which doesn't have to be exhaustive, then get to work on it. You may need to update the plan as new things come up, but the focus of your efforts should be on doing and action.
This action is what will take you out of thinking about it and into the reality of doing it, and it's the only thing that will get you out of trying to figure it out.
Time management books are really useful for getting into action, even when you aren't motivated. The best one I've read so far is Getting Things Done by David Allen, check it out using Steve's links here -
http://www.stevepavlina.com/personal...ment-books.htm
I hope you gained some insight out of this.
