If you do find yourself tipping into a lull where you feel listless and unable to get going, it’s sometimes a good idea to have a list of things which help you to take small steps in your preferred direction. So start with a list of simple pleasures, and a list of ways of achieving things, which you can just pick one from and use to help that virtuous cycle to get started. It’s common to feel like you have to wait until you feel like doing this, but in fact sometimes we don’t feel like doing the thing until we’ve begun to do it. Remembering this can be a real game changer when we feel stuck in
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