Line the old "it's not; you don't need to be motivated to start, you need to start to be motivated"
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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Idk what this image is trying to convey
For those who don’t understand the meaning of this, it’s stating that the amount of tasks to do before starting what you intended tends to become a significantly more burdensome process than you actually starting it.
For example, when I wake up and need to get out of bed, I need to pre-empt me physically getting up by using ways to allow me to executively function or “get motivated”. I tend to sleep in for a while after I wake, then I get on my iPad to find something enjoyable to think about, as well as a half dozen other steps, which includes trying to stop family members pestering me about waking up late.
starting to get real peeved at the vague way you title these memes, i don't even know what this one's supposed to mean.
I am also very confused. The only interpretation that makes sense to me is the list of started/not yet completed tasks, vs. the list of things that were actually followed through to completion. But that is not at all how they’re labelled.
I'm reading it as, when starting on some new project or goal, there are all of these preparatory things that have to happen first, and the urge to perfectly complete all of those preparations gets in the way of actually starting the actual project/goal.
I believe the left check list is stuff no related to the task but stuff to "prepare" for starting the task. For example writing a book, before writing I should change the os on my computer and should read this paper on lexography and watch this video series on character growth arcs and I should buy a cat as good authors tend to have cats, well now I need to buy a cat food bowl and a water dish, I need to learn to use this software to track my writing, oh that can interpret my latex script, what's latex...several years later...oh the book yeah I'll start it right after I clean the cats litter box...
You need more checkboxes on the start side.
Make the start small "let me clean the house for only 5 minutes, that ain't that much time anyway".
Make the steps smaller "I will redo the garden one tile at a time, so I will do one right now so I have done one today"
You don't need to finish when you start a new task. Just make any progress
Line the old "it's not; you don't need to be motivated to start, you need to start to be motivated"