So many of us feel a scarcity of time: we feel rushed, like there’s not enough time to do everything, always behind, never feeling like we’re doing enough.

While it is easy to show up to appointments we make with other people … I’ve noticed that most people struggle with commitments they make with themselves.

It seems to me that being behind on all the things you need to do has become (or perhaps always has been) a part of our basic human condition.

We deeply feel the messiness of our lives. We feel it in all areas of our lives, which stresses us out and causes us to shut down, feel overwhelmed, run to distraction and comforts. It creates tremendous uncertainty for us.

The tendency to put off difficult tasks that we don’t want to face is almost universal. And it turns out, the moment of starting a task is often so much harder than actually doing the task.