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 NY Times: How to Save Yourself from ‘Task Paralysis’ - Your brain can see your to-do list as a threat. Here’s how to get things done anyway. By Dana G. Smith

If it’s a single daunting task that’s causing you to feel overwhelmed, the gold-standard advice is to break it into tiny steps.

“The measuring stick is that your task should be so small that you feel no resistance.”