Coaching practices for Left Alone I'll Dodge This for Hours but the Moment Someone Else is Just Sitting There Working Nearby I Somehow Drop in and Get Going Like I Can't Start on My Own Steam but I Can Borrow Theirs

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• Left alone I’ll dodge this for hours, but the moment someone else is just sitting there working nearby I somehow drop in and get going
• A task I’ve been dreading sits there untouched and feels impossibly heavy, but I’ve noticed that the rare times I just barely begin one, it nags at me afterward until I come back and finish it
• The whole mountain of the finished thing sits on me before I’ve typed a single word, and it’s so heavy I can’t even begin
• I sit down to work with twenty tabs already open and my eyes keep drifting to them
• I keep waiting for a free afternoon to finally dig into the big project, and that block never comes

Practices that may help

1. Use a body double for low-initiation tasks
   Work in the physical or virtual presence of another person to borrow their initiation momentum.
   Task Initiation: Overcoming the Start Problem
2. Exploit the Zeigarnik effect to overcome starting resistance
   Start a task for just 2 minutes — the resulting "open loop" pulls you back to finish it.
   The Zeigarnik Effect: How Unfinished Tasks Occupy Your Mind
3. Commit to starting, not finishing
   Replace "I have to finish X" with "I will start X for 30 minutes" — lower the entry stakes.
   The Now Habit, Made Practical
4. Work in a single window
   Keep one document, one tab, one tool visible so the next task is not one glance away.
   Monotasking, Made Practical
5. Use the "little and often" approach for long projects
   Chip at big projects every day in small doses rather than saving them for marathon sessions.
   Do It Tomorrow, Made Practical
6. Use single-purpose device sessions for deep work
   Block or exit everything except the one tool required for the current task during focused work periods.
   Defending Your Attention in the Attention Economy
7. Single handling
   Start the most important task and stay with it, without switching, until it’s 100% done.
   Eat That Frog, Made Practical
8. The 25/5 cycle
   Work in one 25-minute focus sprint, then take a 5-minute break — repeat.
   The Pomodoro Technique, Made Practical
9. Outsource personal and business tasks with a virtual assistant
   Hand off any recurring task a written process can describe to a skilled assistant.
   Lifestyle Design, Made Practical
10. Take a deliberate incubation break
    When stuck, stop working the problem and let time and an unrelated activity do the work.
    Incubation: Why Stepping Away Solves Problems

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