Do It Before You Feel Ready

Being patient enough to wait is a superpower.

However, waiting for the perfect moment, until you feel better, or to know it's all going to work out is exactly what will keep you stuck and stagnant. Emotions have a way of running the show before we realize they've taken over and are deciding our fate.

"I'll do that when I have the energy."
"I'll be happy when that happens."
"One day it won't be so overwhelming."

It feels like the right thing to do, allowing ourselves the grace to back off the pressure a little bit. This is absolutely a necessary skill to avoid burnout or harm to your health. Forcing productivity or progress never produces positive outcomes and can, in fact, be detrimental to the process. As it’s said, the wood chopper who stops to sharpen his axe will inevitably chop more wood than his competitor. But when you're backing away as a form of procrastination, you will experience longer term fallout with your energy.

Why?

Waiting, in this case, is not in line with your integrity.

Action cures fear and, in fact, cures most feelings associated with being stuck or trapped. Therefore, the best way to approach a task before you feel like it is to start moving anyway. This keeps your energy moving too. When your energy is moving, things flow and the only necessity you're left to worry about is processing the emotional repercussions of doing what you didn't feel like doing in the first place.

This discipline is what creates movement when motivation is nowhere to be found. This movement creates results. It changes your current situation. It moves mountains. 

The downside to giving in to comfort or hesitancy when it doesn't serve you is an impact on your integrity, a black mark on the promises you vowed to keep with yourself. This creates failure patterns and stagnancy because if you have managed to let yourself off the hook once, it becomes easier to repeat. Growth happens when we move, not when we stay still.

Follow these three simple rules:
Focus on your outcome but dont let it limit you.
Release control. Let not knowing excite you.
Release perfection.

Do things before you feel like doing them, unless they really, truly do not serve you. The surefire way to know? Absolute honesty with yourself. This takes emotional vulnerability and a willingness to analyse your heart and thoughts. That's the place most people aren't willing to go.

Be brave enough to know yourself inside and out, and you will realize you have more power than you will ever need to overcome what scares you.

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