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Sometimes, the emotional weight of what we’re trying to do is too heavy.
We might be burdened by the shame of past failures.
We might have waited so long to do the thing that now it feels like too big a deal.
We might be scared of what will happen after we do the thing.
Read MoreIt took seven months from the moment I made the decision to close one of my businesses to finally cease all operations.
That would have made for a boring movie, but in real life, these things do take time.
In fact, it’s still not over. This month, I have to send out the W-2s and 1099s.
Read MoreOver the holidays, a family member mentioned that he’s been learning to play guitar.
Or, he had been learning, but it turned out to be more difficult than he had thought, so he gave up in frustration.
He used an app that showed the sequence of notes to play as the recording of a given song played in the background. The notation moved along, conveyor-belt style, sort of like the game Guitar Hero.
Read MoreI received hundreds of comments on a recent video in which I used the clearing of a brush pile to demonstrate how a person might make incremental progress toward a goal.
Such a high volume of engagement yields fascinating patterns. One common response goes something like this: “Oh, I could never do a project over multiple days. When I do something, I have to get it all the way done.”
Read MoreI wrote a script the other day for a video — and then I didn’t record it.
I had expected to deliver this script on camera. However, once I completed it, I thought maybe it would work better as a voiceover. I could create video footage of myself doing activities that would illustrate the ideas I was speaking about.
And thus, I postponed shooting by two days and counting.
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