Starting A Difficult Task
- Getting good at starting a difficult task is a powerful skill to acquire, and if we can just start the task, half the battle is won already.
- Fear, stress, uncertainty and a feeling of inadequacy make it hard to start a big task.
We need to shift our thinking and take the task as an opportunity, an adventure, a playground to do something useful and fun.
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