Pull the weed while it’s tiny. Wait a month and you’ll need a shovel and an afternoon.

Problems have a size curve. Nearly everything that eventually eats a whole day was once a two-minute job you walked past, and the walking past is what grew it. The awkward conversation, the missing assignment, the noise the bike started making, all of them charge interest quietly. Time is what makes them big, not difficulty.

Name the one thing you have been stepping around and handle it while it is still small and boring. Set a timer for ten minutes and begin. Most of them take less time than the avoiding did.