User blog comment:Rabidcentipede/Balancing the game/@comment-24480866-20140210083200

It's easy to get fat off of low-hanging fruit, but that's better than starving your self-efficacy by accomplishing nothing.

If you find yourself stooping over to pick off small tasks when large ones are staring you in the face, do something to make them less large. Maybe break the task into a series of to-dos: "Started [Task]," "Achieved [meaningful milestone] on [Task]," "Finished [Task]." Or maybe create a habit or daily along the lines of "Start something you've been putting off." Even if all you accomplish on, say, a paper is opening a blank Word document, writing your name and class information on it, and saving, at least you have something. And who knows? Once you get that nick in, you might go on a tear.