I recorded this episode late.
All year I’ve been disciplined. Daily episodes. Even from Nepal with poor internet And yet here I am, back home, beachy, relaxed, watching eight hours of cricket… and suddenly a three-minute podcast feels heavy.
That’s the bit I wanted to call out.
It’s not that the work is hard. It’s that the perception of effort ramps up when you’re in soft mode. When you’re already moving, working, exercising, creating, the extra thing barely registers. When you’ve gone full couch, everything feels like a task.
I talk about why the last stretch of anything feels harder, just like the final kilometres of a run. Same effort, louder brain. And how habit stacking and timing matter more than motivation.
The takeaway is simple. Don’t wait to feel ready. Change the context. Do the thing while you’re already in motion.
Because once you start, it’s fine. It’s the thinking about it that’s exhausting.
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