I ask, “okay, if I were to buckle down, what’d be the first step?” (without committing to doing it, or the necessary followup).
Then, I often automatically adjust to “okay, I could do the first step”, and then I start feeling some momentum, and then the complete Buckle Down process doesn’t feel as hard.
Cf advice from Mark Forster (a v thoughtful personal productivity author): to start work on a task you don’t feel like doing, tell yourself you’re not going to start on it, just get ready to. Then do a preparatory step (eg get the relevant paperwork out). You’ll usually then find yourself segueing into starting work without realising it.
(Cf Parkinson’s patients who get stuck and can’t start walking can be unstuck by putting eg a pencil on the ground and telling them to step over it. This literal first step then enables them to continue with further steps.)
Cf advice from Mark Forster (a v thoughtful personal productivity author): to start work on a task you don’t feel like doing, tell yourself you’re not going to start on it, just get ready to. Then do a preparatory step (eg get the relevant paperwork out). You’ll usually then find yourself segueing into starting work without realising it.
(Cf Parkinson’s patients who get stuck and can’t start walking can be unstuck by putting eg a pencil on the ground and telling them to step over it. This literal first step then enables them to continue with further steps.)