We tend to create false narratives about the difficulty of the tasks we’re avoiding.

By tackling them head-on, you’ll often find those tasks to be “easy-peasy-lemon-squeezier” than you imagined.

Norman Mailer on the Value of Rituals:

“Over the years, I’ve found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when  I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.”