James LimExecution & Direction Coach for Ambitious Overthinkers

Is your head constantly full of things on your to do list?

Name: Is your head constantly full of things on your to do list?
Uploaded: 2020-11-15T00:00:19+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: James Lim
Description: A short single-speaker YouTube monologue (by James Lim) that diagnoses why people feel paralyzed by long to-do lists—being trapped in a thought cycle of…

15 Nov 2020 · 0 min

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A short single-speaker YouTube monologue (by James Lim) that diagnoses why people feel paralyzed by long to-do lists—being trapped in a thought cycle of tasks, task-count, and worry—and offers one practical fix: pick one easy task, focus exclusively on it, and use the resulting small achievement to gain momentum for the next task.

Is your head constantly full of things on your to do list, but you always feel paralyzed, unable to do any of them. Here's a reason why and one way to break the cycle. The problem is we get caught up in the thought cycle, what we have to do, the number of things we have to do, and jumping from task to task worrying about the consequences. To break this cycle, try picking one of the easier tasks. Focus all your efforts on that one task, thinking of nothing else. If you manage to do it, the achievement will often make it easier to do the next one.