Have you ever wondered why you start cleaning up around the house when you have a deadline? It’s probably because you are worried about doing a bad job and you clean up instead in order to feel like you have been productive. Now is the time, you tell yourself, to toss expired products in the kitchen and the bathrooms. You go from room to room, dusting shelves, rearranging books and even responding to email. But when these chores come to an inevitable end, the threat of the deadline looms even larger, and you’re back to where you started.
One way of re-framing the way we seem to postpone work is to look at the cleaning process as: Step:1 of meeting your deadline. Making yourself that tall glass of iced coffee is Step:2 Opening your laptop is the next step and staring at the blank Word doc is Step:4. At this point, even if you choose to get distracted and go wash your underwear, getting back to the task at hand will seem a little less daunting because you have already taken multiple small but necessary steps in that direction.
Think of it this way: your resistance to finishing a task is actually the first step towards actually doing it. #aboutme#asawriterineedto#merlin_quote
