The poster child for “It’s going to take too long” is emptying the dishwasher.
We look at all the dishes and start to make them bigger than it is in our heads;
- There are so many.
- I don’t know where they all go, I’ll have to look around.
- Some of these have odd shapes.
Then we add in the other variables;
- There are clean dishes to put in.
- But not all of them fit, so does that mean I’ll have to wash them?
- Do I need to be somewhere?
In truth, it takes less time to empty the dishwasher and clean what is there than to boil a pot of water for a cup of tea.
The job will always look bigger when you haven’t done it than when you start and has the potential to be smaller than you think.
But you need to start.
