When did you stop waiting to feel ready? There's a moment…
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When did you stop waiting to feel ready?
There's a moment in recovery work where a patient stops waiting to feel ready and just does the next rep anyway. Something shifts, but it's not dramatic at all. No music swells. They just go again.
Watching that repeatedly has changed how I think about my own resistance to things. The gap between not wanting to do something and actually doing it is smaller than people treat it. We frame that gap like it requires solving, like the right mindset has to arrive first before action can happen. But what I keep seeing is that it works the other way around.
The action comes first and the motivation catches up later, or it doesn't catch up at all and you still got the thing done.
What gets me is how long it took to apply that to my own life outside of work. Knowing something professionally and actually using it on yourself are two completely different things.
Curious whether other people had a specific moment where they stopped waiting for the feeling and just moved. Not a gradual shift, but a clear before and after in how they approached hard things.
#inspiration
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There's a moment in recovery work where a patient stops waiting to feel ready and just does the next rep anyway. Something shifts, but it's not dramatic at all. No music swells. They just go again.
Watching that repeatedly has changed how I think about my own resistance to things. The gap between not wanting to do something and actually doing it is smaller than people treat it. We frame that gap like it requires solving, like the right mindset has to arrive first before action can happen. But what I keep seeing is that it works the other way around.
The action comes first and the motivation catches up later, or it doesn't catch up at all and you still got the thing done.
What gets me is how long it took to apply that to my own life outside of work. Knowing something professionally and actually using it on yourself are two completely different things.
Curious whether other people had a specific moment where they stopped waiting for the feeling and just moved. Not a gradual shift, but a clear before and after in how they approached hard things.
#inspiration
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