In an extreme version of this, I heard from someone who reported that they needed to charge their phone, and the charger was even in reach, but the actual act of moving to get the charger felt insurmountable.
I’m confused by why this is in this section.
It doesn’t sound like a problem in the planning or prioritizing stage, and breaking the task down into smaller steps seems totally inapplicable—it’s hard to come up with a step smaller than ‘reach towards the charger’.
Is there some framing of this in terms of prioritization that I’m missing?
Ah, sorry that wasn’t clear! It’s not meant to specifically be an example of breaking things down into smaller steps, but rather a situation where, because it’s so simple, the useful step instead is positive visualization and attention on what each following step would result in.
I’m confused by why this is in this section.
It doesn’t sound like a problem in the planning or prioritizing stage, and breaking the task down into smaller steps seems totally inapplicable—it’s hard to come up with a step smaller than ‘reach towards the charger’.
Is there some framing of this in terms of prioritization that I’m missing?
Ah, sorry that wasn’t clear! It’s not meant to specifically be an example of breaking things down into smaller steps, but rather a situation where, because it’s so simple, the useful step instead is positive visualization and attention on what each following step would result in.