Overcoming Emotional Resistance
You need to remove the anxiety and fear of doing the thing you’re avoiding. Then, you need to remove or invert the pleasant feeling you get from stalling:
- Give yourself small doses of the thing you’re scared of to diminish the fear it generates.
- Punish yourself for failure to act.
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