Hi John, Very nice article.

Of all these steps, the one I find most helpful is preparation. I'll give an example.

I just completed an extremely unpleasant task, one that took several weeks, of editing and posting around 60 new videos on our YouTube channel. In the process of doing that, we lost track of how we had categorized them, and I had to spend the whole of the last week checking carefully the names of each video online with those on two separate external drives.

Now that's done, I'm giving the accompanying instructions for each meditation/relaxation/breathing video to Jan (my wife and co worker) to edit.

Now, finally, I can tackle the next 4 weeks of work - an extensive list of revisions to our main website and the website the hosts our online courses, given to me by our marketing coach.

it's the last thing I want to do. I'm actually planning to read the NY Time and The Atlantic before starting. It's around 10:40 AM and I expect to get started around 11:30.

And I KNOW when 11:30 comes around, I'm NOT going to want to start now.

- here's what for me is most helpful and I didn't see in your article. Apologies if I missed it.

Baby steps.

I need to identify several things that I do NOT dread, that are VERY easy.

In fact, my plan is to take my coaches 7 page PDF, single spaced, with a relatively small font, filled with dozens of tasks - some easy, some involving having to learn new software, which I dread the most - and organize it in terms of ease and priority.

That's easy. And it will be enormously helpful. Then I'll take a few of the easiest tasks and mix them with 1 very hard task (and also break THAT hard task down into steps).

Did I miss that? Did you mention breaking down unpleasant tasks into easy bites? That's the one I find most helpful, but everything else you wrote is great too.

Thanks!