Start with the smallest thing.

You wake up already tired. What you used to enjoy leaves you cold. Having a shower has become something you decide. And underneath, a voice explaining it the worst possible way: that you’re lazy, that you have no excuse. This course is for that.

It won’t ask you for willpower. If that worked you’d have solved it already — precisely because you’ve been trying for months. What it does is take apart the mechanism that keeps it going, and reverse the order: you do first, and the drive comes behind. One lesson a day for seven days, with a small practice in the gap between one email and the next.

The seven days.

1. 01 Before changing anything, look Why you start by measuring, not by resolving.
2. 02 The drive doesn’t come first The reversed order: you do first and feel afterwards.
3. 03 The ridiculous size The first step has to be doable on your worst day.
4. 04 Give it a time, not a mood Taking the decision out of the way, exactly when deciding is what you can’t do.
5. 05 Two kinds of thing Accomplishment, and the ones you used to enjoy — without demanding they be enjoyable yet.
6. 06 Count what you did, not what you felt Changing the measuring stick is what keeps this going in two weeks.
7. 07 The bad day It will come. What to do with it, and what not to.

And an eighth email, a couple of days later, gathering it all onto one page — and saying plainly where this course stops being enough.