When we are behind schedule — or we feel like we’re behind schedule — there’s often the pressure to catch up.

If you’re facing a project deadline, then catching up makes sense; you’ve got a job to do.

But that same feeling can bleed over into other areas. A backlog of magazines and newsletters. A queue of shows. A shelf of books. Your ideal resume. Your portfolio.

Here, catching up is more … problematic. And maybe impossible.

So consider exchanging the concept of “catching up” with the concept of beginning.

Don’t worry about the backlog. Just start. Begin. Go.

That action will build momentum and you’ll make the kind of progress that’s unhindered by pressure, guilt, and shame.

Just begin.