Everyone tells you to “just start.”
Open the document.
Write one sentence.
Do five minutes.
It sounds sensible.
It feels practical.
And occasionally, it even works.
So when it doesn’t — when you keep procrastinating anyway — the conclusion tends to be personal.
I must be lazy.
Undisciplined.
Broken in some subtle way.
But there’s a quieter, more uncomfortable possibility:
What if the advice is wrong?
In this episode, I explore why “just start” advice backfires for overwhelmed brains — and what’s actually happening in your nervous system when starting feels impossible.
We’ll look at why forcing action trains avoidance instead of discipline, how pressure and emotional load change your brain’s ability to initiate, and why procrastination isn’t resistance to work at all — it’s resistance to pressure.
More importantly, you’ll hear a calmer way to understand procrastination — one that reduces shame, lowers internal pressure, and makes momentum possible again.
This episode is part of a wider framework I call the Momentum Reset Method — a practical way of rebuilding momentum by working with your system instead of trying to overpower it.
If procrastination has been making you feel frustrated or broken, let this land:
You’re not lazy.
You’re not broken.
You’re overloaded.
And overloaded systems don’t respond to force.
They respond to safety.
If you’d like to go deeper, this episode sits alongside:
Sometimes progress doesn’t begin with action.
It begins with understanding.
In this episode, we cover:
If procrastination has been making you feel frustrated or broken, let this land:
You’re not lazy.
You’re not broken.
You’re overloaded.
And overloaded systems don’t respond to force.
They respond to safety.
If you’d like to go deeper, this episode sits alongside:
Sometimes progress doesn’t begin with action.
It begins with understanding.
