The scariest thing in your inbox isn't the hard email. It's the blinking cursor on the easy one.

You know the reply you're avoiding. It's not complicated. You know what you want to say. But the blank compose box just… sits there. You'll do it after this meeting. After lunch. Tomorrow.

Here's what I finally realized: the tax isn't the writing. It's the starting. Facing an empty box, from zero, forty times a day, quietly drains more energy than the actual work.

So I stopped starting from zero. Now I type a shortcut and the full draft is already there — I just change a line and send. The reply I would've put off until 4pm takes four seconds at 9am.

Turns out I never had a discipline problem. I had a blank-screen problem.

What's the easy email you weirdly keep putting off? 👇