Fixing the weakest link

The harder you reach for the stars, the more difficult it is to get off the ground.

We can find ourselves being ambitious and setting huge goals and lists only to fizzle and not deliver on a quarter of what we've planned.

Get started with permitting yourself to have small wins and small amounts of progress. Three hundred sixty-five days of small wins is a massively successive year.

Find the weak links and the pinch points that are preventing you from getting started and correct them. One example of something I do is to avoid specific tasks because they will take too much time (or so I think).

The solution for me has been to permit myself to set aside ten minutes for that task. I waste plenty of ten-minute blocks throughout a day, so using one of those ten-minute blocks for something good will be good!

When I start a project, I look for the things that I'm afraid of, worried about, and not keen to get started with, and I find ways to work with and around those problems to streamline even the most difficult tasks. It's been the only way I've ever "cured" procrastination.

P.S. I do preach about discipline a lot whenever I talk about procrastination. Self-control is the bedrock, even of this. It would be best if you had the control to see and act on all the ten-minute blocks you're wasting and the discipline to pick out a ten-minute block and set it aside and do the work during that ten minutes. Discipline is still crucial; this "weakest link" is a practical method to do what you should while your discipline has constrained you to do what you should.