🚀 Getting started

The two-minute deal

Promise yourself only two minutes. Stopping is allowed.

Tiny version

Set a 2-minute timer and begin before it rings.

Start a 2-min timer

Good for

  • Dread is bigger than the task
  • Boring chores
  • You’ve been “about to start” for an hour

Why it helps

A short, fixed window makes the task feel safe enough to begin. Most of the resistance is in the starting, so two minutes often becomes ten.

The full version

  1. Set a timer for two minutes.

  2. Work on the task until it rings.

  3. Decide honestly: stop, or do another two.

  4. If you stop, that still counts as a win.

If this doesn’t click, try

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