What works for me: forcing myself to start a task, with permission to give up at any time. It often extends to my true goal once I start, but still allows me to exit early when I'm in a bad mood without feeling too bad.
Going to the gym? 95% of the time I get a decent workout once I gey there. Once I was in a particularly bad mood, so I arrived, warmed up and left. It felt liberating!
Going for a walk? It feels nice most of the time once I get in the rhythm. Sometimes it doesn't, so I come back after a few minutes.
Reading? I wanna do it more. So the goal is to read at least a single page - often it leads to many more, sometimes it's just that page and that's it.
The routine + acceptance of sometimes giving up really takes a lot of stress away from me!
Going to the gym? 95% of the time I get a decent workout once I gey there. Once I was in a particularly bad mood, so I arrived, warmed up and left. It felt liberating!
Going for a walk? It feels nice most of the time once I get in the rhythm. Sometimes it doesn't, so I come back after a few minutes.
Reading? I wanna do it more. So the goal is to read at least a single page - often it leads to many more, sometimes it's just that page and that's it.
The routine + acceptance of sometimes giving up really takes a lot of stress away from me!