You Know What To Do

Hi friend

Here's something I've been stuck on lately.

You already know what you need to do.

You know you should work out.
You know you should start that project.
You know you should stop wasting time on your phone.
You know you should eat better, sleep more, be more consistent.

You don't need more information. You don't need another course, another book, another video explaining how to do the thing.

You know what to do.

So why aren't you doing it?

I used to think this was a motivation problem.
Like if I just got inspired enough, or found the right system, or read the right thing, suddenly I'd start doing what I know I should do.

But that's not it.

The gap between knowing and doing isn't about information.
It's not even about motivation.

It's about something else entirely.

Here's what I think it actually is: you're waiting for the conditions to be perfect before you start.

Not consciously. You'd never say "I'm waiting for the perfect moment." But that's what's happening.

You're waiting to feel ready. To feel motivated. To have more time. To have more energy. To have things figured out.

You're waiting for some future version of yourself who has their shit together to show up and do the work.

But that version of you doesn't exist yet. And they never will, because that version gets created by doing the work, not before it.

The person who has discipline wasn't born with it.
They built it by doing things when they didn't feel like it.

The person who's consistent didn't wait until consistency felt natural. They forced it until it became natural.

The person you're waiting to become only exists on the other side of doing the thing you're avoiding.

So the gap between knowing and doing isn't a knowledge problem. It's a permission problem.

You're waiting for permission to start messy. To start before you're ready. To start when conditions aren't perfect.

But no one's going to give you that permission.

You have to give it to yourself.

Here's what helped me: I stopped asking "am I ready?" and started asking "what's the smallest thing I can do right now?"

Not the perfect thing. Not the complete thing. The smallest thing.

Because the smallest thing doesn't require perfect conditions. It doesn't require motivation. It doesn't require you to be a different person.

It just requires you to move.

And movement creates momentum. Momentum creates consistency. Consistency creates the person you're waiting to become.

You don't need to know more. You need to do more with what you already know.

You don't need better conditions. You need to stop waiting for them.

You don't need to feel ready. You need to start anyway.

The gap between knowing and doing isn't about information.
It's about whether you're willing to start before you feel like it.

Until Next Week
Lorenc - Founder of Success Skill