Start With the Update Button

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.

Nik

Niklas Göke writes for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. A self-taught writer with more than a decade of experience, Nik has published over 2,000 articles. His work has attracted tens of millions of readers and been featured in places like Business Insider, CNBC, Lifehacker, and many others. Nik has self-published 2 books thus far, most recently 2-Minute Pep Talks. Outside of his day job and daily blog, Nik loves reading, video games, and pizza, which he eats plenty a slice of in Munich, Germany, where he resides.