Okay, okay! Bear with.
You’ve been asked this before.
I’m going to tell you the story of the great day I had yesterday.
Short version – I did every task I intended and said I would do and it felt bloody marvellous and I ended the day on a high. It actually took me a while to come down and get to sleep.
Here’s the thing.
You know what you need to do.
It may not even be that scary to be honest.
You just don’t really feel like it.
Believe me, been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
The thing is though…….
When you get the work done, whatever it is and we can talk about that when we work together, you feel great (champion as we say up here in the North of England), here’s the kicker – you prove to yourself (and yourself alone!) that you CAN do it.
Self-doubt is such a massive killer, it probably outranks all the other diseases we’re reminded of as the biggest Death of Dreams you can imagine.
You’ll have listened to a million people tell you how much you need to do, what order to do it, that you’re a loser if you don’t do it.
On the loser point, no it doesn’t make you pointless but you do lose something, something quite major in fact – you lose joy. You’ll lose fulfilment as well.
Life is a series of innumerate decisions but you can decide to take ONE step.
Having big, bright, shiny dreams has an off-putting effect (believe me, I’ve been here as well!) of feeling so enormous you can’t fathom where to start. Don’t worry about it. Nobody else knows exactly what they’re doing either. CHUNK THINGS DOWN!
We all want to do everything, immediately if not sooner but no one ever does that.
Most of life is dancing in the dark and bumping into the right stuff, the difference with the 1% is they flail around stylishly and laugh off the knocks.
You already have a plan, you’ve procrastinated over it for years, maybe even decades like me.
You know you’re capable, remind yourself of past wins.
Take one step today and another if you fancy, maybe more than one or two.
Rinse and repeat.
It really can be that simple.