Change is a freezing pool. Inching in one step at a time just stretches out the shock.

Some decisions carry a fixed cost you cannot spread out. Approaching them slowly does not reduce the shock, it only extends the part where you are cold, hesitant and not yet in. The dread compounds while the actual difficulty stays exactly the same size it always was.

Name the one thing you have been getting closer to by degrees for months. Put a time on it this week, tell someone the time, and go all the way in when it arrives. The hard part is short. The approach is what has been long.