I need to book plane tickets for EAGx Prague before they get prohibitively expensive, but I’ve never done this before and haven’t been able to get myself to actually go through the process for some reason. Any advice for what to do when you get “stuck” on something that you know will be pretty easy once you actually do it?
Sounds like an ugh field. Spencer Greenberg also had a podcast episode on motivation recently, including backchaining to your ultimate motivations through a series of “why” questions in order to access more motivating feelings.
My random advice would be to book a friend or maybe some EA whose done it before to walk you through the process and provide their flight-booking wisdom (a pretense or useful or both) like “you have to pay for a checked bag both ways so maybe it’s better to upgrade to the seat with a free checked bag”.
Some people I know have found that committing to a friend that they’d donate $X to an ineffective charity to be a sufficient motivator. I’ve had mixed results myself.
I need to book plane tickets for EAGx Prague before they get prohibitively expensive, but I’ve never done this before and haven’t been able to get myself to actually go through the process for some reason. Any advice for what to do when you get “stuck” on something that you know will be pretty easy once you actually do it?
Sounds like an ugh field. Spencer Greenberg also had a podcast episode on motivation recently, including backchaining to your ultimate motivations through a series of “why” questions in order to access more motivating feelings.
My random advice would be to book a friend or maybe some EA whose done it before to walk you through the process and provide their flight-booking wisdom (a pretense or useful or both) like “you have to pay for a checked bag both ways so maybe it’s better to upgrade to the seat with a free checked bag”.
Some people I know have found that committing to a friend that they’d donate $X to an ineffective charity to be a sufficient motivator. I’ve had mixed results myself.
It’s a pretty easy process—You could also just get someone else to do it for you