How To Get "Unstuck" And Achieve Your Goals
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It’s 5:41 AM.
I’ve been sitting at my desk for 30 minutes, thinking of what I should write this morning.
As I wrote that first sentence, the idea came into my head.
Today, we will talk about why the work comes before the inspiration.
LFG. 🔥
The Action Comes Before The Outcome
I spent the last 30 minutes reading articles, scrolling Twitter, and looking at press releases, trying to find something that inspired me.
Nothing worked, so I simply opened a blank page and started putting words on paper. Suddenly, the idea came to me.
This is how it always works. If you want to know what you should do, you need to start working.
If you’re stuck in life, the answer is almost always to take action. You simply need to start doing things. Whatever the final result becomes won’t be anything close to what you originally conceptualized, so stop trying to predict it.
Newton’s First Law Of Productivity
When you are planning, creating your vision board, or watching YouTube videos of people who inspire you, you are still an “object at rest.”
As you know, objects at rest stay at rest, while objects in motion stay in motion. Once you generate momentum, the work suddenly lays itself out in front of you.
This concept applies to your day to day when you’re feeling stuck, and also to the big picture when you feel like your vision is too far out of reach.
To beat the paralysis, you have to solve for both scales.
Solving the micro
Some mornings, I just don’t feel like working. For whatever reason, getting going feels difficult.
To solve the micro, I focus on small actions to force my body into motion:
Complete a small task, like paying a bill
Go for a walk (this is my go to)
Work out
Jump in the cold plunge
I have this feeling at least once a day. I can always recognize it because I start “clicking around”, which is when I know my brain is stuck in a pattern.
So I take action to break the pattern.
Solving the macro
It’s a totally different ballgame when you are embarking on a big project like starting a business.
The obstacle here isn’t morning fatigue. It is the fear of making mistakes.
The trick to macro momentum is accepting inefficiency. Most people go into projects thinking they need to do everything correctly in order to succeed. It’s actually the exact opposite. If you’re ready to go after your dreams, you need to realize that you will do almost everything wrong at first.
Nothing works perfectly on the first try. Most of your experiments will fail, and along the way you will realize that your original plan wasn’t even a good plan. But the only way to find the good plan is by process of elimination.
Successful people have a massive action bias. They don’t think too hard about whether something will work or whether they will fail. They just do things, and they accept that failure is simply a data point.
Ironically, the ones who experience the most failure are the ones on the fastest route to success.
Get Out Of Your Head And Start Doing Things
This willingness to fail is the only real cure for that voice telling you that you are a fraud.
In fact, stop even using the phrase “imposter syndrome.” It’s a stupid idea because anyone who is learning to do something they don’t know how to do yet is technically an imposter. Action is the only thing that turns an amateur into a professional.
Yes, write a plan and have a basic guideline. Write your ultimate outcome statement and stick to it. But stop obsessing over the outcome.
Whether you are staring at a blank page at 5:41 AM or trying to launch a massive company, the rule of physics remains unchanged. You cannot steer a parked car. Nudge the car by doing the next right thing, trust the process, and let momentum do the heavy lifting.
It will work. Your future self will thank you.
Love you guys. Talk to you tomorrow.
Tim
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