How to make progress
I am currently re-reading Atomic Habits with a client of mine, and this book always hits me where I need it.
Today's chapter said you don't make progress by being in motion. You make progress by actually taking action.
Being in motion is planning things, reading about things, thinking about things... trying to concoct the perfect plan, but you're not really doing anything.
Taking action is moving forward. Even if it's messy action. Even if you try something and it doesn't really work, that's okay. That's part of the process.
Last night I got the first episode of my new 8 part series out to podcast listeners. The episode is good. It's not amazing. I kept thinking about how I could make it better. I started creating a new website landing page for it. And I was making all this cutesy stuff and then realized I was procrastinating. I was in motion but not actually taking action.
So I wrote a script, I sat down to record it, and I got it out to my podcast listeners.
Being in motion is making a cute website.
Taking action is creating the actual episode.
One moves you forward. The other keeps you in the same place.
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Jaclyn Ricchio
Hey! It's Jaclyn. I'm here to help you stop feeling like a failure by getting consistent with mornings, meals, movement... anything. I hope you stick around and read a bit, will ya?
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