There are
only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way,
and not starting. – Buddha
Do you ever have a hard time just starting something? Once you start it, you then have no problem
completing the task.
In the last couple of weeks, the blog posts have been about
Teddy Roosevelt’s daily habits of writing every day after his morning
swim. With this habit, he wrote over 30
books. This is a great idea, but what
happens when we hit a “roadblock” that prohibits us from starting and
completing the task.
While on my great European adventure, I started journaling
my daily activities so I could send a summary of my adventures to family and
friends when I returned. Those days were
great, but I stopped writing my daily activities when I traveled to France and
I never finished it. It is now mid-February
and I FINALLY
finished it over the weekend. Two months
late…REALLY??? I tried a couple times to
start and when I did it was great. I
would write a day’s summary and then move on to completing other tasks. However, I have been busy with work and at
night I just did not want to do it. I
tried various ideas for helping motivate myself, but it was very
difficult.
So how did I finally finish it….I used an idea I read in
James Clear’s blog called the “Two-Minute Rule”. Writing the summary was not hard. It was finding the time and motivation to
just start.
For anything that we need to accomplish, we will most likely
accomplish it if we just start out doing the task for 2 minutes. Once you start, the fear of starting will be
overcome with the desire to accomplish it.
The accomplishment I felt when I finally completed it was well worth the
time I spent on Saturday and Sunday FINALLY finishing it….
What is it that you need to complete, but just have not had
the time or motivation to do….Just start with 2 minutes…
Good
habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits. – Robert
Puller
Source
http://jamesclear.com/how-to-stop-procrastinating
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