What are you avoiding? What areas of your house or your life or your mental to do list give you anxiety everytime you think about them?
We all have things. It may be the mountain of unfolded laundry heaped in the hamper, the piles of unsorted mail on the counter, or the looming work deadline that keeps getting pushed back. How do we get started without feeling completely overwhelmed?
One little trick I learned: Set a timer. 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 50 minutes, whatever seems reasonable to take a bite out of this task. When the timer is on, it’s work time, and when the timer goes off… STOP. Give yourself permission to go hard, but remove the expectation that you can complete the whole thing in one sitting.
Every day before dinner, I set a timer on my phone and we all clean up the house. 5 minutes, as hard as we can go. It’s AMAZING how we can go from disaster zone to relatively clean house in just 300 seconds. It gives us all a daily sense of restoration and normalcy, and it even feels like a game to the kids.
What can you knock off your list today? Set a timer and get cracking!
JoyPlusGrace 
Great advice and story.
I have always been a “task worker for reward” kind of person. Examples: when I get dinner in the oven then I will sit down for 20 minutes and finish that chapter on my iPad. Or, I will work till 2 o’clock only on the house and then take a nap. I grew up knowing that “you always have to do one thing before you can do another” and yes, it does feel good to have things in order.
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