"Write down why you're resisting a task When Chris Bailey finds himself unable to start an aversive task, he reaches for a notepad and does what he calls aversion journaling: writing down exactly why the task feels so ugly and what he could do to reduce that ugliness. "I always leave with some tactical thing that I can do to make it less ugly for myself. And if not that, my relationship with it changes a little bit — I understand what makes it so aversive." He structures it as a choice: do some aversion journaling or do the task itself, and he finds that working through the written reflection almost always dissolves the resistance. Anyone who repeatedly avoids a specific task can use this as a five-minute diagnostic before concluding that the goal should be dropped entirely. Source: Chris Bailey, Modern Wisdom, Intentional: How to Finish What You Start"