If you’re still putting off that 1 task, read this

Out of all the tasks on your to-do list, whether there’s 3 or 30, one of them is more important than the others.

One of them will move you toward your goals more than the rest - and if you have more than 5 tasks, chances are almost all of them are completely pointless.

But how do you identify the most important?

Well you could think in systems, you could reverse engineer your goals - in fact, there’s a lot of things you can do.

But the simplest way is to look at the task you’re avoiding.

Chances are that task is your most important.

Important tasks are important because they create progress. If they create progress they require effort and are hard. Hence, your most important task will likely be your hardest, which is why you put it off.

Depending on where you stand in your ability to face discomfort, overcome resistance and do hard things, there’s a lot of ways you can go about tackling this. One of them is you can just suck it up and do it.

But if you’e got caught in a cycle of consistently putting off your hardest tasks there’s a bigger issue here.

You see, your important tasks are important. They create progress. They’re meaningful. They matter. If you put them off and avoid them, you’re essentially saying they don’t matter as much as what you’re choosing to do instead.

And if you say the work for your goals doesn’t matter, then by extension your goals don’t matter - because the thing cannot be more important than the work needed to get the thing - and if your goals don’t matter then what you want doesn’t matter, in other words, you devalue what you want, you devalue your opinions, beliefs, desire and direction, you devalue yourself.

And if you devalue something, you disrespect it.

Lower self-respect makes it harder to do hard things, things that are good, useful, meaningful and challenging, things that demand self-respect to do - and so you’re more likely to do lesser things again in the future, like continue to put off your important tasks.

As you can see, this creates a huge downward cycle.

And at this point “just sucking it up” is pretty damn hard - because that requires you to have some level of self-respect, some standard that accepts your goals and their work are important and must be done.

So what can you do?

Well it might sound counter intuitive but do this;

If you can identify your ~3 most important tasks but yet you avoid them, tomorrow just focus on the 1 most important task. That’s it. Do that. Nothing else.

I mean this literally. Make the only thing you do tomorrow that 1 task.

If you do it and then decide to do more (which you likely will because of momentum and that increase in self-respect) that’s great.

But that isn’t necessary.

The sole goal is to do 1 thing. 1 damn important thing. 1 thing that’ll make you proud and satisfied, effective and fulfilled.

Prove to yourself you can do something useful and necessary. Build your self-respect and set the bar low by doing just 1 thing.

And you’ll find it easier to not only do again the next day but to build upon and do more.

You’re building momentum, you’re building self-respect. You’re building discipline. You’re rising to the level required of you.

You’re doing the damn work.

— Ross PS: Want to master your mind and performance so you can scale FAST? ​Work with me 1-1 here