Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem. - John Cleese

The key thing is to start, even if it feels as though you’re forcing yourself through an emotional roadblock.

So “borrow” an idea from someone you admire — an idea that really appeals to you personally.

I noticed years ago that when people (myself definitely included) are anxious they tend to busy themselves with irrelevant activities, because these distract from and therefore reduce their actual experience of anxiety. To stay perfectly still is to feel the fear at its maximum intensity, so instead you scuttle around doing things as though you are, in some mysterious way, short of time.