When you can’t fix the whole problem, fix the next ten minutes.

Big problems freeze you because they ask for a solution you do not have yet, and the mind treats that gap as a reason to do nothing. Ten minutes is a size you can actually handle. It will not solve the thing by itself, but it changes your state, and a problem looks different to someone who has just moved. Most progress is made of pieces this small.

Pick the nearest ten-minute version of whatever is stuck: one page of the reading, one shelf, one message sent. Set a timer so the end is defined. When it rings you can stop or keep going, and both are fine.