I’m not lazy, so why do I keep putting this off?

The most likely feeling behind one task you keep dodging, and a first ten minutes that gets around it.


When to use
When one specific task has sat on your list for weeks and telling yourself to just do it has stopped working.
Time
10 min

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I keep putting off , and it has been . I don’t think it’s laziness. Ask me up to five questions, one at a time, about what happens right before I avoid it: what I think, what I feel, and what I do instead. Then name the most likely thing I’m avoiding, such as boredom, confusion, being judged or a decision I don’t want to make, and show which of my answers point to it. Give me a second possibility in case you’re wrong. End with a first ten minutes designed around that feeling, not around discipline. Don’t call me lazy and don’t cheer me on. Be direct. No padding and no reassurance I did not ask for.

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