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Ask Flex / Forms you keep putting off

Ask Flex

Why do you keep putting important things off?

"Why do I keep putting important things off? It's always the stuff that matters."You asked Google. Flex answered.
Flex the robot pulling papers out of an overflowing desk drawer labeled LATER and stacking finished forms beside it
Flex's short answer

Because important things usually take a lot of thinking or deciding, and that's the first thing you avoid when you're tired. Make the first step tiny, like opening the email, or let AI draft the hard part, and it's much easier to start.

✱ The video

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✱ Flex's tips

Make the first step tiny.

1

Name the one thing

Not the whole list. The one you've been avoiding most.

2

Find a 5-minute first step

Open the email. Find the paper. That's it.

3

Hand off the heavy part

Let AI draft the letter or read the form.

4

Do it in the morning

You have more energy then than after work.

Try this in your own Claude or ChatGPT

The thing I keep putting off is: [describe it]. Break it into the smallest possible steps, 5 minutes or less each, and tell me which parts you can do for me right now.

Before you paste work stuff into any AI, check what your company allows.

If it's work stuff you keep putting off, it'll keep coming back. The free Lab shows you how to hand that work to Claude.

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The Later Drawer

List what you keep putting off. See how small it really is.

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✱ What people ask
Why do I keep putting things off?

Usually the thing feels bigger than it is. Put a real number of minutes on it and it shrinks.

How do I stop putting stuff off?

Start it instead of finishing it. One 5-minute step today. Flex has a page on it.

What if I keep putting off things I need to do for work?

Pick the one that has waited longest, do its first 5-minute step today, and ask your AI to draft the rest.

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