Just as a door separates inside from outside, focus separates what you can influence from what you can’t. Morrison doesn’t recommend grand gestures; she recommends one contained step—small enough to complete, clear enough to measure. That boundary is crucial because doubt feeds on vague tasks like “fix my life” or “be good enough,” while it struggles against concrete aims like “write 200 words” or “send the email.”
Consequently, the “single focused action” becomes a boundary-setting tool: it limits the conversation with fear to the size of the next doable unit, keeping the rest of the imagined catastrophe from flooding in. [...]
