How to overcome dread tasks

Love this. "Make it stupidly small" is among one of my favorites

I love the advice to divide and conquer dread tasks. But I don't exactly like the idea of re-labeling them to things that sound less intimidating. Because in my opinion, dividing and conquering does the re-labeling job for you.

The task do your taxes soon gets converted into a multitude of different, smaller tasks, like:

• check email and snail mail for tax documents
• put all tax documents in the same place
• search yelp for the nearest tax attorney with good ratings
• email the tax attorney, requesting their services
• if possible, ask tax attorney if you can simply load your tax documents onto their shoulders and let them handle the entire mess so you don't have to think about it
• etc.