Inertia Is Real

There’s always the dread of doing something (new) or picking up something that you have been leaving on the floor for a while. This is necessarily more so when you that task has no quick direct consequence but has a considerable long impact; you are more to kid yourself that the long impact wouldn’t suffer since it is long in the future, or just one more day wouldn’t hurt.

But it is important to counter this and doing just a little bit, to break the inertia. Any little bit will help. Just like this little itsy tiny post.

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