Putting it off doesn’t shrink the task. It just adds stress to the bill.

Delay changes nothing about the size of the work, but it adds a second thing to carry: the low background awareness that it is still there. That weight is often heavier than the task itself, and you pay it every hour until the thing is done. The total cost of avoiding is almost always higher than the cost of doing.

Take the item that has been following you around and give it twenty minutes today. Not to finish it, just to make it real. Most tasks turn out to be smaller than the dread attached to them.