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How to make it easier to do the things you don’t feel like doing
You don’t want to start.
Your heart goes faster.
You and your thoughts move quicker. You start to pace.
You’re in a mild panic.
Because you panic, you want to take on many things at once.
You look at the beginning, and you look at the end, and you try to start in the middle too.
You also try and do that other thing with your free right foot.
I’ve told people to move fast before.
I’ve said to view yourself as a creative maniac, and rather than slow down, to ten times your productivity.
True.
But not until after you’ve created momentum.
And if things are hard, and you’re panicking, and things seem bleak, dark, dull and impossible…
Slow down.
You only have one thing to do right now.
That is to figure out a way to make things easy.
And fun.
The greats appear to do things that are hard all the time.
But, in truth, they know how to make things easier, even if it starts out feeling tough.