I think a possible action-fake could be spending time contemplating how to be more efficient. I'm a big fan of simply jumping in with two feet, because over time, from creating real things, you'll naturally learn and adopt more efficient approaches to using your time.
However, if you're doing one of the following, you're (probably) not action-faking:
(1) Creating a prototype to show to your target user group to collect actionable feedback to use for building the next prototype or an actual MVP. (But read Nail It, Then Scale It first on how to collect valuable actionable feedback from potential users about your prototype or MVP first - trust me, reading those book is definitely not an action-fake, provided you don't consider reading it "working.")
(2) Creating an MVP that you'll actually try to sell for real money.
(3) Trying to sell an MVP that is or isn't finished, just to see if there's market demand for what you want to make.
(4) Doing a couple hours of reading / video watching to learn about Facebook marketing campaign strategy IF your MVP is at least 80% finished and you'll soon be ready to attempt to sell it.
(5) Attempting to code a rough, simplified version of a product you've envisioned with the sole purpose of learning computer programming.
(6) Collecting email addresses / phone numbers to cold-contact to try to sell either a finished product or an unfinished product that you have a pre-sales strategy for, assuming that you stop at about 100-200 email addresses or 25-50 phone numbers and actually trying out your intended sales strategy to see if it's potentially worth collecting more email address / phone numbers.
If you're doing one or more of those things with your time, I wouldn't worry too much about efficiency, because that will come with time. I'd focus more on being consistent with an hour a day for a while (for 5 days a week, feel free to give yourself 2 days off) and then trying to bump up than one hour a day to two hours a day. Putting that time in, doing productive things that actually involve developing a product / sale channel for a mostly completed or fully completed product, will lead to efficiencies with time probably more efficiently than trying to brainstorm ways to be more efficient with the limited information you may have at this point in time about how you could be using the time you're investing more efficiently.
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