Getting Started on a Major Task

Getting started on a major task is not easy. It requires courage. The courage to begin or launch and the courage to persist. Successful people always start with tasks of higher values and get them done before they move to the less important tasks. There is an endless temptation to start with what is fun and easy rather than what is hard and necessary. This is called 'procrastination'. It is an epidemic. If we were to succeed, we have to discipline ourselves to do what is hard and necessary rather than what is fun and easy. When we start on major tasks and get them done, our self-esteem goes up and we start to like ourselves.

How do we stop procrastinating?

Well, this is a difficult question. But there is one strategy that might help. If you have a big task to do, don't try to do it all at once. Divide it into as many small steps as possible, and every time do just one step. It's called 'salami-slicing', that's, don't try to eat a whole loaf of salami at once but slice it into as many slices as possible and then eat one slice at a time.

Hope this helps. I wait for your comments.