Why does the moment before starting feel so mentally exhausting?

I’ve been noticing something about myself lately and I’m curious if anyone else experiences this.

Whenever I decide I want to start something meaningful — improving my life, working on a project, changing a habit — the hardest part isn’t actually doing the work. The hardest part is that moment right before I begin.

I’ll sit down ready to start, but instead of taking the first step my brain suddenly starts going in every direction. I start thinking about the best way to do it, whether I should research more first, whether there’s a better plan I haven’t thought about yet.

Then I start reading, planning, watching videos, trying to “figure everything out” before I actually begin.

In the moment it feels like I’m being productive, but at the end of the day nothing really moved forward.

The weird thing is the more I think about starting, the heavier it feels.

I got curious about why this keeps happening and spent some time looking into it, and eventually I came across an article that explains this kind of overthinking really well.

Thought I’d share it here in case anyone else relates.

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