Perfectionism is possibly her biggest obstacle, though what was literally holding her back was that she needed technical advice from the guy who created the site for her, and was too embarrassed to contact him and admit that the site still wasn't live.
It's a familiar problem. We let one small action stand in the way of making massive progress.
At the risk of turning her off ever wanting to Skype with me again, I insisted she phone him then and there while we were still on our call.
The conversation lasted about three minutes, was painless, and during the next twenty minutes while we were still chatting, she'd 'hidden' all the partly-written pages that were making the job feel overwhelming, and finished her home page.
Having watched how easy it was to make enormous progress in such a short burst, as soon as we got off the call, I logged onto my own website and did some long-overdue content maintenance. I'd envisaged the task taking about a week. It took two hours.
Start today
We all allow 'silly things' to hold us back at times, not realising just how easy it would be to leap over that hurdle and snowball into progress.
We'll sit on a work task because we're anxious about asking for clarification on something we 'should know'. We'll hesitate to make a dental appointment because we're envisaging the 'worst case scenario'. We'll avoid a difficult conversation because the pain of going through it seems worse than the longer-term pain we're putting ourselves through by avoiding it.
What 'little thing' are you currently letting stop you from achieving a 'big thing'?
Don't give it another moment's thought. Do it RIGHT NOW.
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