CAN'T SEEM TO GET STARTED

                                     

          No matter how big or how little the job is the hardest part seems to be sitting ourselves down and getting started. There is something weirdly affected by the fear of making the commitment to begin. But once we start, the worst is often over.

           So, first, we have to make ourselves to be comfortable and relax. And set our mind according to the conditions like what's going in our surrounding. And try to understand the mindset of the persons who are present to listen to you.

          As we know the Chinese proverb, "A  journey of 1000 miles begins with the single  step", we usually put pants on just one leg at a time.

          Before starting any project, even something as simple as paying a stack of bills or answering some mail, I used to have to be sure that I had a completely clear playing field ahead of a guaranteed stretch of several hours in which I could not be distracted or interrupted. I couldn’t bear the thought of possible tasks interruptus.

These guaranteed stretches were generally between 2 and 5 AM. Jobs ultimately got done but only at the price of serious sleep deprivation.

The remedy proved strikingly simple. Don’t think of the task as a monolithic whole; regard it as a series of little chunks. No matter how inspired by the fear the whole task appears, don’t be afraid to start off with just one tiny chunk. It will mean that you’ve accomplished something and, more often than not, this breaking of the ice will reveal that it’s not such a big glacier after all. In fact, taking the first whack at will probably initiate a continuing stream of ice chips until you’ve knocked off more of the job than you had anticipated at the outset.  

          Even sometimes we need to remember the starting point, to come back anytime and chip off a little bit more. The simple principle that applies to start the job applies to make continuous progress on it. Once you realize that it's not like trying to jump over a canyon in two leaps, you can finish almost any job in stages, one piece at a time.   

     In fact, this “one piece at a time” trick is very useful for filling “time chinks”—little segments of perhaps 15 to 30 minutes available and all too easy to fritter away. But if you have a job that can be chipped away at in pieces, an unscheduled “time chink” is ideal for filling with one of those detached pieces.