Here's what helped me... just do something quick. For example, do you have an old dish on your desk that should be in the dishwasher? On the dread of lifting your plate and carrying it all the way to the dishwasher? Ok then do this right now: pick up your plate and move it to the kitchen. That's it. You don't have to put it in the dishwasher, you don't have to wash it off first if you don't want to but I would like for you to pick up that plate right now and put in the kitchen. That's all.

Or pick up that piece of trash from your desk and put it into a garbage bin.

Seriously just anything that takes less than a minute and likely a few seconds.

Then, start looking for things that takes seconds to do. You realize that you spend minutes trying to agonize whether to do something that takes seconds instead of just doing it and moving on.

Now comes the best part: once you've done that, it makes you feel good to have accomplished anything. So you want to do more. Therefore let's do all the dishes and clean the whole house? No, do something else that takes seconds. For instance, get a replacement toilet roll and put it near the toilet because you're running low. See that smudge on the fridge? Just wipe off that one smudge and nothing else.

That's it, just do these quick things.

You'll be motivated to do more and then if you add up all these small things then it leads into something big. A dish here and there leads to a full dishwasher that you can just run. A clean spot on the floor leads to cleaning other spots on the floor which leads to clean rooms and a clean house.

Don't stress yourself out by saying "oh and from now on I'm always going to keep it clean". Don't set yourself up for potential failure that you'll stress over and fail anyway. Just promise yourself that if something takes seconds to do then you won't waste minutes thinking about it and, instead, you'll spend those seconds doing it. You can afford seconds of time.

One tip that really works for me is clean as you go. You can set food on lower temperature and see if you can juggle a few things at once to keep you busy. For instance, can you clean that dish before you need to flip your eggs or before the toast is done? Can you load in 2 glasses into the dishwasher before the microwave goes off? Try to beat your previous "record" - make it a game (but don't cheat, obviously). If you get good at the "game" enough then you might only have a few dishes left to do by the time the food is fully cooked so when you've eaten, you can - once again - spend a few seconds putting away your dirty dish and glass and utensils and poof, clean kitchen somehow.

Also another tip that doesn't apply to you but might apply to others. who have trouble working out. I have some weights near the laundry. If you wash something and say it has a 50-minute timer then set a timer for 40 minutes. When it goes off, go to get laundry. It's not done yet but... look there are these weights. I might as well. Now let's see how many times I can lift these before the laundry is done. Again, make it a game. Don't go crazy - these tips are designed for people who have trouble doing anything, therefore doing something is better and can start something more formal. Don't stress about it and think you now need to do 25 lifts and 3 reps and change into workout clothes. No just lift this weight 3 times in 10 minutes. That's it, no expectations. You do that and next time, see if you can do 4. Maybe 5 later? Start small, have no expectations, make it a game. Soon enough it'll turn into a fun habit and you'll accidentally have a reasonably clean house (no expectations, remember) and you'll be in slightly better shape. Just going to squeeze another workout tip: stop parking next to the store entrance. Park where it's safe (i.e. near lights and all) but walk a bit. Free exercise and you're just slightly doing better than before. No expectations. See if you can park further away from that. Maybe walk to the end of the block and back? Ok now two blocks? How about three?

Start slow, have extremely low expectations, and don't waste more time agonizing about a big task and focus on doing something trivial right now. For example, I've had breakfast and I have a dish in front of me at my desk. I'm going to hit "save", get up, and put that dish in the kitchen. I have a full dishwasher of clean dishes and I'm going to ignore it. I'm just going to put the dish in the kitchen. At lunch, I'm going to start cooking food while I empty the dishwasher and put this dish in. That's it, low expectations and small gains that add up.