highly sensitive power

How much time do you spend not doing the repugnant things you need to do? Why?

Wait! Don’t answer that.

Analysis takes time. Consider it optional.

What’s more important – getting the task done or knowing why you’re putting it off? Often, just getting it done is as far as you need to go. Applying brain power only prolongs the agony.

Use brute force to blast past the repugnant task.

To crack through walls of resistance, wield a timer. A timer cuts through the crap. Your noggin’s lame attempts to motivate you vanish when your focus narrows to a timed task.

Set the timer to a length of time that’s absurd. Five minutes to clean the bathroom. Seven minutes to pay the bills. Two minutes to write out a script for the phone call, punch in the phone number, and say, “Hello, may I speak to …”

Time expands and contracts to fit the task. Use that.

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{ PEP TALKS deliver a bracing blast of Grace }

Flickr photo: out of time, by orvalrochefort

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