It is kind of incredible the lengths we go to avoiding unpleasant feelings.

Let’s take getting up in the morning. How many of us hit the snooze button a few times?

What about starting that really boring enormous project? It’s so much more fun getting sucked into the black hole of our inbox, am I right?

Or having that conversation? It’s funny how the resentment of not having it is evidently more pleasant than the fantasy of how difficult it will be.

This week I noticed I was doing a lot of avoiding. So I made the call I was putting off, started a project that had been on the procrastination pile and this morning, threw back my duvet with my first alarm.

Sometimes we forget how good it feels when we are proud of ourselves.