Episode 9
What Am I Waiting For?
Starting Before You Feel Motivated
It's Monday morning.
You've been planning to start for weeks.
The alarm goes off and you hit snooze.
Not because you're lazy.
Because you're waiting to feel ready.
In this episode I share how this podcast took almost a year to begin, because I kept waiting for motivation.
And what changed when I simply wrote one sentence.
In this episode
- Why motivation comes after action, not before
- How I waited almost a year to start this podcast
- Motivation is the smoke, not the fire
- The two-minute first step
Walkthrough
00:00Waiting to feel ready
01:03Action creates motivation
01:55This podcast is my journey too
03:24Me, plans and deadlines
06:13They just started before they felt ready
07:32Motivation is the smoke, not the fire
08:52What have you been waiting for?
09:47Make it so small you can't say no
11:14One small action leads to the next
13:57This week's invitation
15:50Light the match
Worth keeping
"You don't wait for smoke
before you light a match."
This week's invitation
Pick one thing you've been putting off.
Find a first step that takes less than two minutes.
Then do it now.
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