Gentle ways to actually start

If you are frozen, you are not lazy and nothing is wrong with you. Task paralysis is real, and it usually means the task feels too big to hold all at once. Here are some things that help.

• Shrink the step. If "do the dishes" feels heavy, re-break it down until the first step is just "put one cup in the sink." Tiny is allowed.
• Use Focus mode for one step. The full-screen view hides everything else, so there is only the one thing to look at.
• Set a 5-minute timer and promise to quit when it dings. You almost never will, but knowing you can makes starting safe.
• Trust the next step. You do not have to plan the whole task. Molehill is holding the rest for you. Just do the one on screen.
• Lower the bar to "badly." A messy, half-done version beats a perfect one that never happens.

And if today is not the day? That is okay. Molehill will be holding everything exactly where you left it, no penalty, whenever you come back.