Okay, you’ve picked your boulder.
Now your brain—being the dramatic genius it is—wants to turn this next step into something grand:
- “I’ll block off an entire weekend to tackle this.”
- “I just need to map out a full strategy first.”
- “Let me create a color-coded notion dashboard before I start.”
Sound familiar?
This is friction, again. But now it’s wearing a productivity hat.
Let me offer an alternative: Make the first step so small, it’s borderline ridiculous.
I’m talking:
- Open the doc
- Write the subject line
- Email the person one sentence
- Put your gym shoes by the door
- Say out loud what you want to do
That’s it.
Because momentum doesn’t start with big moves.
It starts with micro-movements—tiny actions that your brain can’t argue with.
Here’s what happens when you lower the bar far enough: you step over it.
And the act of stepping—no matter how small—builds the confidence, clarity, and inertia to keep going.
You don’t need a perfect plan. You need progress.
And that starts with the most laughably doable version of the thing you’ve been avoiding.
ACTION STEP:
Take your boulder and write down a step you can do in under 3 minutes. It doesn’t need to be meaningful. It just needs to be forward.
Then… do it. Right now. Yes, now.
That one small action? That’s not the warm-up. That is the work.