You don’t have to want to go to the gym when you’re lying in bed in the morning. You don’t need to be hungry when you wake up to know you’ll eat oatmeal for breakfast.
All the matters is that you want something when the time comes. Thinking about getting out of bed is a overwhelming sometimes because you have to do 15 things to get ready and get out the door. But it doesn’t matter that you have to do 15 things. What matters is that thing one is to stand up. Once you’ve stood up, you can move on to item two. Once you’ve done task 14, you do task 15 and then you’re out the door.
You don’t have to want to do task 15 when you haven’t started task 1. When I wake up, I’m not hungry for breakfast. It sounds gross and I can’t imagine wanting it. Consistently, I’m really bad at predicting what I’ll want in the future.
By the time I’ve brushed my teeth, gotten dressed, meditated, read a little bit and written my to-do’s for the day, I’m starving.
I think we often psyche ourself out in the morning by thinking about the day as an aggregate of dozens of events. In reality, the day is just a series of one event at a time. As long as you can take the next step at each stage, you’re going to make it through the day.
When you’re feeling overwhelmed by “all of the things” that you need do, write them all down. Get it out of your head and on to paper. Focus on one task at a time and then move on to the next one.
No matter how much you try, you’re not going to be able to make progress on more than one at a time. Just take it step by step. Appreciate each moment and eventually you will accomplish great things.
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