Why You Keep Putting It Off (And It's Not Laziness)
Published: September 12, 2026
Duration: 4:52
There's one task on your list today that would only take five minutes — a call, an email, a conversation — and somehow it's still sitting there untouched. Meanwhile the dishes get done. The laundry gets moved. Anything but that one thing.
That's not a discipline problem. It's a flinch — a real, uncomfortable feeling that shows up the moment the task comes to mind, and doing something else makes it go away, at least for a minute. Today's episode looks at the two ordinary reasons an easy task can start to feel unbearably heavy, and why treating it as a charact...
That's not a discipline problem. It's a flinch — a real, uncomfortable feeling that shows up the moment the task comes to mind, and doing something else makes it go away, at least for a minute. Today's episode looks at the two ordinary reasons an easy task can start to feel unbearably heavy, and why treating it as a charact...