Try something new

If you are struggling to take the first step, try something new! New achievements can help to motivate us and find new options for the future. Once you have achieved a new action, retry the initial routine and see how you feel. We often try to justify procrastination by convincing ourselves that smaller tasks are still productive- what's important here is that you are only temporarily straying from the original goal. You are adding a few additional steps to the process, but the end result has not changed.