Putting the words "crappy" and "doable" in different contexts can help to ease the anxiety of breaking a streak.
Aiming to do something specific, like meditation or writing, daily can help to reduce the fuzziness of whether or not a streak has been broken.
Making oneself stop and walk away from a project can help to reduce the anxiety of failure.
Author and journalist Oliver Burkeman says that facing our finitude and how little control we have over our lives is key to living a truly fulfilling and meaningfully productive life. With this in mind, in this snippet Oliver explains how to set better goals.
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