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How to start anything you've been avoiding

Free guides · each one ends in a two-minute first move

The same trick, every time: whatever you are avoiding, the way in is one action small enough to take in two minutes and specific enough to need no decisions. Not a plan, not a schedule — a physical first move. Each guide below names that move for a particular task, then hands it to a free timer.
Start my thesisIt has no visible end, so no amount of starting feels like progress. Start my taxesYou don't know what the first step is, so every attempt to start bounces off. Start a job applicationThe result has an audience, so your brain protects you by keeping it unstarted. Start cleaningYou can't see the end, so every start feels pointless before it begins. Start an essayYou're being asked to produce quality before you have clarity. Send the difficult emailIt's short and exposing — the reader's reaction is the whole difficulty. Start studyingThe syllabus is bigger than the time left, so starting feels like admitting it. Start my side projectPlanning feels like progress, so the first real step keeps receding.

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