Stuck to Started

What it is

You know what you need to do. You might even want to do it. But you still can't make yourself start. Stuck to Started is a calm, grown-up-looking kit written to the teen (ages 13 to 18) for that exact moment: getting from "I can't" to the first five minutes, without shame, lectures, or streaks. It starts with a plain-language page on why starting is hard (and why it isn't about how much you care), then a Stuck Finder that sorts stuck into six kinds: too big, too boring, don't know how, scared it'll be bad, low battery, and too many things. Each kind points to the fix that fits, including 24 color-coded five-minute start cards. There's a two-minute "Unstuck in Five" routine, a Make It Smaller breaker, body-doubling ideas with ready-to-send texts, a reward menu, a start log that counts starts instead of finishes, an "I didn't do it. Now what?" bounce-back page, and a page for the adults at home.

What's included

• Start here: not lazy, just stuck; ground rules and how it works
• Why Starting Is So Hard: plain science, what stuck looks like, myths vs. what's true
• The Stuck Finder: six kinds of stuck and what to try for each
• Unstuck in Five: a two-minute routine + a "right now" fill-in
• Make It Smaller: a breaker that shrinks any task to a tiny first step
• 24 Five-Minute Start Cards (2 cut-out pages, color-coded by kind of stuck)
• Someone Next to You: body doubling ideas, my body doubles, texts to ask
• My Reward Menu: tiny, medium, and big rewards + "after I ___, I get ___" deals
• My Start Log: counts starts, not finishes
• I Didn't Do It. Now What?: shame-free recovery steps + kinder words
• My Unstuck Plan + 2 cut-out pocket cards
• For the Adults at Home: what helps, what backfires, things to say, when to talk to a doctor
• Keep Going + terms of use

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