Getting started on tasks can be hard.

You’ve got something that needs doing and you know that it’ll move the needle for your ambitions, but you never seem to start. You’re procrastinating on key work, and worse, starting to move from wondering why to listening to internal dialog that suggests you’re broken somehow.

Just to reaffirm: you’re not, you are awesome.

But you need to get through a block. A tool might be helpful, and I would like to hand it to you:

Commit to a minute.

If you find yourself in the cycle of desiring to do a task and not doing it, get out a timer – phone, kitchen, egg, doesn’t matter – set it to one minute, and then commit to doing as much as you can in that minute.

IGNORE THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD THAT SAYS A MINUTE ISN’T ENOUGH TIME!

When the timer goes off, you’re done. You can go back to whatever procrastination seemed important enough to keep you from your task, but you get to say within, “I worked on that,” and that will make all the difference.

What is it that you want to work on? What do you commit to giving it a minute? Reply to this email and let me know, and I will commit to reaching back out in a week to find out how it went!

Go make the most of that minute!