Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Eric from the one you feed and
Speaker 1: I'm doing something a little bit different today. It's just
Speaker 1: me and I'll be talking to you about one of
Speaker 1: the concepts that comes up on the podcast a lot.
Speaker 1: I've gotten feedback from a bunch of listeners saying they'd
Speaker 1: like to hear more from Chris and I who we are,
Speaker 1: and just hear more from us in general. So this
Speaker 1: is an attempt at doing that. We don't have all
Speaker 1: the fancy audio equipment. I'm not at Chris's, so I
Speaker 1: am sitting at my house, so this will not sound
Speaker 1: as good as it normally does, but we will go
Speaker 1: with what we have, and I think going with what
Speaker 1: we have is a good way to segue into the
Speaker 1: concept I want to talk about today because it comes
Speaker 1: up over and over again on the show, and it's
Speaker 1: the idea of taking action even when we don't feel
Speaker 1: like it. This this idea that our mood we have
Speaker 1: to be in the right mood to do something, is
Speaker 1: very pair a list for us, and I'm as guilty
Speaker 1: of it as anybody. And doing the podcast right now,
Speaker 1: this actual talking is an example of me trying to
Speaker 1: break through that I didn't really feel like doing it
Speaker 1: right now. It's something I've been wanting to do. I
Speaker 1: had a lot of good excuses about how I wasn't ready,
Speaker 1: or I needed to do this, or I needed to
Speaker 1: do that, and finally I simply said, all right, plug in,
Speaker 1: let's go. So here we are and and and getting
Speaker 1: unstuck is is a lot like that. When we're when
Speaker 1: we're feeling or we're feeling stuck in the spot and
Speaker 1: unable to take action that we know that we need
Speaker 1: to take. There are some tools that we can use
Speaker 1: to break that down. And uh, I think the first
Speaker 1: tool that is just to realize that we're stuck, that
Speaker 1: we're procrastinating, and even recognize what we're doing. Um Todd
Speaker 1: Henry said on the podcast at one point that you
Speaker 1: must be conscious of how today's choices beget tomorrow's regrets.
Speaker 1: So it's important for us just to to to break
Speaker 1: out of the habitual stream and realize that we are
Speaker 1: not using our time as well as we would like.
Speaker 1: And I think that's really a clear first step. The
Speaker 1: second thing for me that I do is I try
Speaker 1: and break the work down in my mind into the
Speaker 1: smallest possible increments that I can. This does a couple
Speaker 1: of things for me because I get stuck and have
Speaker 1: a hard time doing things, usually for one of two reasons.
Speaker 1: I'll probably think of a third before I'm done, but
Speaker 1: we'll start with the first to the first one is
Speaker 1: that it feels overwhelming, it's too much to do it,
Speaker 1: it just seems like it's a long way to get there, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So what I do if I break it down into
Speaker 1: the smallest possible chunk I can, I've just really reduced
Speaker 1: the amount of time and the overwhelming feeling. And then
Speaker 1: the second thing that I run into a lot is
Speaker 1: that I don't I'm not quite sure what to do
Speaker 1: or I can't see my way all the way to
Speaker 1: the end, know the task or whatever the work is.
Speaker 1: And again, by breaking it down into small pieces of work,
Speaker 1: I can find one that that I can get after. So,
Speaker 1: for example, today doing this, I simply said, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna plug it in and I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens. And and that was enough
Speaker 1: for me to break it down into a very small piece.
Speaker 1: I didn't have to worry about how he'd edit the
Speaker 1: final piece. I didn't have to worry about whether it
Speaker 1: was any good, whether it was gonna be any music,
Speaker 1: I was gonna plug in and talk, and I took
Speaker 1: the pressure off myself also that it had to work.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna do it and then um. So
Speaker 1: that's an example of breaking things down into a really
Speaker 1: small piece. Another classic one for me is getting through
Speaker 1: my email inbox. As an example, if I'm overwhelmed and
Speaker 1: there's a ton I will just set a timer for myself,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll set it for two minutes or five
Speaker 1: minutes and say, all right, I'm gonna get started on this.
Speaker 1: It's usually enough to get me moving, and then when
Speaker 1: the timer goes off, I'm usually in motion and I
Speaker 1: can keep going. And that has been a way that
Speaker 1: I've learned to tackle all kinds of things, whether it
Speaker 1: be clean out my email inbox, recording the podcast exercising.
Speaker 1: Exercising is one where it's a it's let me get
Speaker 1: the clothes on to go to the gym. That will
Speaker 1: be my first thing that I do, so I break
Speaker 1: it down to that level. Cleaning the house is another
Speaker 1: classical one. Set the time or five minutes, let me
Speaker 1: see what I can get done. Usually after five minutes,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm moving, I feel better and I
Speaker 1: want to keep going. And this is something I think
Speaker 1: that we all wrestle with, and I do think it's
Speaker 1: one of the key components to living a better life,
Speaker 1: is to being able to motivate ourselves when we don't
Speaker 1: feel like it, we're not in the mood. Our moods
Speaker 1: are extremely capricious and not a great way to base
Speaker 1: our life on how we feel. And yet I think
Speaker 1: that's what a lot of us do. I know I
Speaker 1: certainly have done that plenty of times in the past
Speaker 1: and and still can do it today if I'm not
Speaker 1: not staying on top of it. There's a there's a
Speaker 1: phrase that says something like we can't think our way
Speaker 1: into right action. We have to act our way into
Speaker 1: right thinking. And this is an example of that very
Speaker 1: small breaking the task down into the smallest increment that
Speaker 1: I can think of, and then committing to doing that
Speaker 1: increment and ideally committing to do it right now. It
Speaker 1: seems to help an awful lot with doing those things.
Speaker 1: So that is all for our short little chat here together.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it was helpful to you guys. I love the
Speaker 1: listener feedback. I'd love to hear from you. You guys,
Speaker 1: anything that you want to hear more of, you want
Speaker 1: to hear less of. UM, it's it's great to hear
Speaker 1: from you. I know we're getting lots and lots of
Speaker 1: listens and downloads, but the more I hear from you guys,
Speaker 1: the better that is. So thanks so much for listening
Speaker 1: to the show. I hope that it's helping you in
Speaker 1: feeding your good wolf and we'll talk again soon. Thanks
Speaker 1: very much, See Yah