I don’t want to do the assignment! I don’t want to do the laundry! I can’t even begin to think how to write a book!
So, you don’t want to?
I want to, but I can’t. It’s too hard!
Everything feels too hard, unless you break it into steps. Your brain has its BS detector on, which means you can’t exactly trick it into doing hard tasks.
Oh, I do start my tasks, but I can’t finish them. That’s why nowadays, I don’t even start!
That’s okay. Before you start a daunting task, chalk out exactly what you need to do for it.
Washing clothes? You need to separate your cottons and your woollens, then get a bucket and pour detergent and mix water to wash your cottons first.
Let the clothes sit for a while, soak up all the foam from the detergent. Then wash them simultaneously, one by one. Hold the ends of the clothes and wring it till the cloth has no soapy water arising from it. Gather them all in another bucket, and hang them on the clothes line to dry.
Done? Repeat the same process for your woollens, just change one thing. Instead of using detergent, use a fabric softener.
See, now that we have kept your brain upfront and honest about all the steps, that wasn’t so hard, was it?
Usually the reason why we don’t start tasks, or start them but can’t bring ourselves to complete it is that our tasks aren’t one-step, they include multiple steps in hindsight. Break them down enough, and you now have reasonable goals to accomplish rather than a ginormous mountain staring back at you.