I can easily think my way out of a bad situation

Thinking is very good at the first step and much worse at the rest. It can tell you which direction to walk. It cannot do the walking, and past a certain point it starts producing detail instead of movement. Plans within plans, contingencies for contingencies, none of which touch the ground.

Notice how often the answer arrives once you stop. In the shower, halfway up a hill, twenty minutes into a job that needed both hands. The mind seems to want you looking away before it will hand anything over.

So think, and then go and do something else. The second half is not a break from the work.