Tell yourself you'll do just five minutes instead of the full hour. You'll probably keep going once you start, but even if you stop, you've broken the hardest part: beginning. The dread shrinks when the commitment feels small.
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if I have a bigger thing that I'm dreading, like a big project for work or going to the gym on a certain day where I'm not really feeling it, if I put it in the perspective of it's a big long task, like it's gonna be an hour workout and it's got, it's supposed to be a heavy leg day. And thinking about all of those things that can definitely make you not wanna do it. But if you put it more in the perspective of, okay, I don't feel great today, but I'm just gonna work out for 5 minutes. And if I really don't feel it, I can quit, that kind of thing. Uh, that will make it a lot more likely that you follow through.