You want to get a lot done. You should get a lot done. You should exercise for 40 minutes. You should write for two hours. You should clean the whole house.
But you don’t feel like you can do a lot, so you do nothing. Doing a little wouldn’t be worth it, you think.
But doing a little is actually a prerequisite for doing a lot. It’s literally impossible to do a lot without first doing a little.
And sometimes, doing a little generates the motivation you need to keep going. You do a little, and then see a bit of progress, so you want to do a little more, and a little more, and before you know it, you’ve done a lot. All because you gave yourself permission to do a little.
Or maybe you don’t get momentum, and you stop. But then you do a little again the next day, and the next, and the next. If you do a little every day, eventually it adds up to a lot.