Sometimes it’s okay to just have a “Minimum Required Output”. The most difficult thing usually isn’t the actual task itself. Most of the time, the most difficult thing to accomplish is the actual decision to do it. So just make that the goal, the objective to make the decision with a “Minimum Required Output.”
I might have wanted to go to the field to go workout but I’m feeling so beat, deflated, low-energy… I’ll tell myself “ok, just drive to the field, I don’t need to workout just go to the field and I can drive back home.” By the time I drive out to the field, my mind has changed, I feel more energized and I want to workout.
Sometimes it’s that mental block of wanting to say “no” and judging ourselves for that is the actual thing draining us, not necessarily dreading the actual activity.