Sometimes, I go to my website but don’t know where to start. Usually, it’s not that I don’t know what to do. It’s that I’m overwhelmed by the length of the list. As a result, I start fretting about the order of things. When that happens, I can spend a good while going in circles before remembering: Just start.
One little trick that helps bridge the gap between overwhelm and action? Pressing the little “Update” button in the top left corner. If I’ve got nothing else to do, might as well run the website updates first, right? Funnily enough, this microscopic maintenance task often gets me over the hump. “Okay, now that that’s done, why don’t I get to updating some posts?”
Momentum begets momentum—but the former and latter may vary in size. A tiny push can keep a boulder rolling downhill all day long. Start with the update button, and maybe everything else will refresh itself as well.