If you can’t take the first step, take the second.
James Richardson
NASAThis makes no sense at all. It also works pretty well.
Even when depleted, I can sometimes do something. Even two or three somethings. Apparently momentum has a logic of its own.
Practice: Start something, anything, that you don’t know how to start. Or start something adjacent. (The principle being that action leads to action.)
Related practices: Need, Tuesday nights
Optional: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/134/11/3417/310550