10 Minutes, 1 inch
It's one of the oldest time-management strategies in the book: when you've got a big project looming before you, or a task you're dreading, divvy it up into small, manageable chunks. Makes sense. But for me, a start-challenged procrastinator, this never worked. I'd hack a brochure assignment into little bits - intro, first page callout, etc - and still feel a burning desire to go and alphabetize my DVD's. To me, it seemed like even MORE work than before because I now had all these little bits to tackle. And it hadn't addressed my main problem - how to get started?
