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Paulism: The first thing you need to do to achieve deadlines is to get the ‘things to do’ in motion now... Time in Motion.
4.3 Don’t put difficult things off – Swallow a Toad
This is about those terribly hard-to-do tasks we just don’t want to do and put off. The things we fret about and worry about upsetting others. Or we might feel nervous about doing the task.
Well, best thing is to ‘just do it’ and make it your highest priority of the day; get it over and done with... ‘Swallow a Toad’.
We all like doing the warm and fuzzy things and ones that we enjoy and make us feel good, but we need to put the ones we procrastinate on in front of those. These are A1 tasks. Just suck it up and do it. Once it’s done, you feel so much better and often it turns out not as bad as you first thought. It’s generally fairer on the person you have to interact with (it generally has to do with people, but it may be going for a run in the morning, for example) to achieve the task at hand.