How to Write Effectively

I love arguing with myself in writing. I will explore all these different angles until I'm totally sick of the subject. Then I'll leave it for a few days or sometimes a few years. And then I'll pick it up again and I'll look at it with fresh eyes. So what I always end up doing is at some point I say okay this is a mess. Let me reduce this to an outline. What do I really want to say? If I had to summarize my thoughts on this and do a tiny little bullet point outline what would it be? That's the end result that you see. But yeah just kind of use that metric of is this helping me or hurting me