Nitu Mohanka explains how to beat procrastination by focusing only on the first seven minutes of a task. When you feel overwhelmed by a big goal like an hour workout, just commit to starting: getting ready, putting on shoes, leaving the house. That early momentum carries you through to finish.
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Here is a 7-minute technique to form a new habit. So has it happened to you that there is a huge task and you feel overwhelmed by the big task that you will have to do? Yes, we all do, right? So say for example, if you have to work out for an hour, so you do not focus on the entire hour because your mind gets overwhelmed and then you do not want to do it at all. Focus on the just first 7 minutes of the task. So if you have to go and work out, maybe you have to go to the gym, In the first 7 minutes would be getting ready, putting on your shoes, you know, and going out. That is the first 7 minutes. That is all you need to focus on. Once you put yourself into momentum, then your body and mind keeps going into momentum, and you will see that you will end up finishing that task which is of 1 hour. So the hack here is just focus on the smaller task where you can get started, the first 7 minutes. I hope this helps.