Stuck? Start here.
One question at a time. Five minutes at the end.
What are you avoiding?
What’s the smallest physical move that starts it?
05:00
Just that. Nothing else.
You started.
That worked because the task got smaller.
Ticka does this every day: a task becomes sub-tasks, and the next one shows up on its own — with a reminder, when you’re not looking at a tab.
Why the first move has to be physical
“Start the report” is not an action. Your hands cannot do it. There’s no muscle involved in “starting” — which is why you can sit in front of it for an hour and never begin. “Open the document” is different: it’s one motion, it takes two seconds, and you already know how.
That’s the whole trick on this page. The task doesn’t get easier — it gets smaller, until the first piece is something a hand can do. After that, momentum does what willpower couldn’t.