I made it a goal recently to write for five minutes a day. I’m four days into this as I write this, and I’m pleased to report that I’ve written for well over five minutes on all four days. In fact, I’ve written more in four days than I did in the previous four months. It’s great. (It’s reminded me that I actually like the act of writing, I don’t just like having written.)
This is a way to fight procrastination: Start small. Decide you’re going to work on the thing for an absurdly short amount of time. Once you get started, working more is easier.
It’s much easier to get from minute one to minute two than from nothing to minute one.
Start small so that you’ll start at all.
