The beginning you once postponed can later become an ordinary part of your week.

Starting feels enormous mainly because it is unfamiliar, not because it is hard. The class you put off for two years, the appointment, the first walk: each carried a weight that came from imagining it rather than from doing it. Once it is underway it stops being an event and becomes a Tuesday. Almost nothing keeps the size it had before you began.

If something has been waiting a long time, aim only for the first instance rather than the whole commitment. Getting it onto the calendar once is usually what turns it from a decision into a routine.