👉 The best mantra to beat procrastination is not “Just do it”. It is “Just start”.
If you want to run every day and find yourself giving excuses, tell your brain, “I will put on my shoes and run just up to the corner of my street”. If you want to write and find yourself facing resistance, tell your brain, “I will write just one paragraph, irrespective of quality”.
When you find yourself unable to do even that, count down from 5 and just get up and take the first step. Wear your shoes, open your notebook, start that doc. Just take the first damn step.
You will be amazed to see that you will want to continue to run, write, workout etc once you take that first step.
Resistance, the destructive force that wants to kill your creativity and your flow, is at its most powerful when you are yet to begin. Just like inertia. And once you begin, you will keep going. Just like inertia.
đź’ˇJust start.