[sockopen]

Personally, I break things down into the tiniest possible steps and then feel guilty for being too lazy to do that and usually end up doing it.

Example with doing the dishes: - Stand up. - Walk towards sink. - etc...

I usually cannot justify being too lazy to stand up... or walk towards a sink... etc... if I leave it as one "large" task, I have a hundred excuses.

[bluejellybean]

Try the two-minute rule!

If the task will take you less than two minute to complete, just shut up and go do it.

I've used it to really lockdown my chore times.

[chocolatebunny]

Holy shit, you can stand up! When I lie down on the couch, I have a tough time being motivated to get up. Even to go to bed. I've fallen asleep on the couch so many times.

[swah]

This works for me in some kinds of tasks. Sometimes when I don't feel like changing the plastic bags in the bathroom tray [1], thinking "ok, let me just remove this bag. I can put a new one (2nd half of the task) later." puts me in motion and I usually do the complete (rather stupid) task easily.

[1] Its a brazilian thing, we can't throw our shit paper in the toilet.

[johnchristopher]

> [1] Its a brazilian thing, we can't throw our shit paper in the toilet.

Why ? Is it cultural or technical ?

[TillE]

GTD has a lot of useful advice like this (have a concrete next step for each task), even if you don't follow the system comprehensively.