How to motivate yourself to tackle dreaded tasks

From the book 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Steve Chandler shares a simple technique for tackling dreaded tasks:

Most of our hardest jobs never seem to get done. The mere thought of doing the whole job, at a high energy level, is frequently too off-putting to allow motivation to occur.

But a good way to ease yourself into that motivation is to act as if you were the laziest person on the planet. By accepting that you’re going to do your task in a slow and lazy way, there is no anxiety or dread about getting it started...

The thought of starting slowly is an easy thought. And doing it slowly allows you to actually start doing it. Therefore it gets finished.

Another thing that happens when you flow into a project slowly is that speed will often overtake you without your forcing it. Just as the natural rhythm inside you will get you in sync with what you are doing. You’ll be surprised how soon your conscious mind stops forcing the action and your subconscious mind supplies you with easy energy.