Make the call you’ve been avoiding. Two minutes of awkward beats two weeks of dread.

Putting it off does not pause the task, it runs it in the background all week. Two minutes of discomfort gets traded for fourteen days of low level dread, and the dread costs far more attention than the call ever would. The thing rarely gets easier with age, and often gets slightly worse. Most of what you are avoiding is the first ten seconds.

Pick the one on your list and do it before you have finished deciding to. Say the first line out loud once, then dial, and let it be clumsy.