Use a timer to overcome resistance - Free Audiobook

When you commit to working on a task or project for a finite period of time it's like using the correct container for the things you want to store. Putting your possessions into the right containers makes them easier to find when you need them. Putting your tasks into time containers makes them easier to approach.

It can be daunting to start a task that doesn’t have a foreseeable end, especially if you don’t want to do it, if it seems hard or complicated or just not fun. As Albert Einstein said, “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”