Competence turns intimidating tasks into sequences.

Intimidation comes from seeing a task as a single mass with no entry point. Competence dissolves that by revealing it as an ordered set of steps, each of which is ordinary. Nothing about the task changed, only whether its internal structure is visible to you.

With something that feels overwhelming, force yourself to write down the first three steps. Even guessing at them starts converting the mass into a sequence, which is where the fear mostly lives.