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What is the smallest honest door into the thing you keep circling?

Start smaller than your avoidance can argue with.

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Practice Light

The Teaching

Open the file, wash one dish, write the first bad sentence. Ten quiet minutes can loosen the knot without asking you to feel ready.

Human problem

What this is for

Procrastinating on something that matters to you.

Modern human condition sources

For

Who may need it

Anyone facing this situation

Pressure survived

Why it stands for now

Passes as practical, but it is mostly the two-minute rule with kinder phrasing, not a distinctive teaching.

Source Basis

  • teaching-forge: situation-first trap-and-turn

Disclosure

What would make us revise this

Weakens if the named trap is not what people in this situation actually do, or the turn is what they would already try.

Common Questions

What does this candidate say?

What is the smallest honest door into the thing you keep circling?

What would make The Lumenary revise it?

Weakens if the named trap is not what people in this situation actually do, or the turn is what they would already try.

Is this a public Teaching?

No. This is a teaching candidate kept as research trail. The public Teachings page carries the smaller distilled set.