When I find myself not doing a thing I intended to do, a massive shift for me has been to go deeper into what’s preventing me from Just Fucking Doing It™ right now.

If the answer is “nothing, i just don’t fancy it right now”, that’s my mind lying to me.

Your default state is to act on the thing you decided you’d like to do. NOT to do nothing. So if you ‘feel like not doing it’ then that’s a cover-up—there is really some active blocker at play.

It can be so hard to see what that is.

For me more often than not it’s fear of people not liking the thing once I ship it… fear of it being more difficult than I thought (which was weird when I figured it out, because I’m someone who loves digging into challenging things)… or just generally any kind of fear of unknown, fear of leaving comfort zone (again, I think of myself as someone who loves being out of my comfort zone… but these things can be subtle).

Once you find what it is, you can make an active choice to recognise that fear for what it is (some misplaced fear—you won’t be eaten by a bear!), respect that it’s there, and continue to do the thing anyway.

It’s not easy, but it’s always doable once you’ve seen what’s really happening.

You have total control over your actions as soon as you realise that the big scary blocker is nothing more than an emotion—a physiological response in your body/mind.

Again, if you think there’s no fear/active blocker at play, that’s your mind/ego telling you lies to protect itself. It’s smart like that. But once you realise that, you’ve tapped into an intelligence infinitely greater than it. You’ve got this.