How To Take The Jump, You Keep Putting Off

Monday 1st April

Hello 👋 Happy April 1st, our Forward Tide Fools!!

In the dawn of spring, I thought we’d discuss new beginnings.

There’s always something, that we want to pursue.

The question is why don’t we do it?

Why you stay within routine?

The brain is a brilliantly built machine. Its job is habit learning.

Whether you want to or not, your brain is practising everything you do. You’re essentially running on autopilot on a daily basis.

Do you really like the things you do, or are you just used to doing them?

What do you really want?

If you could wake up tomorrow, and have a sense of ‘amnesia’.

You don’t fully remember what you did yesterday.

What you ate. Where you went. What you do for a living.

…What would you do tomorrow?

Now you can’t just get up and alter everything. There are everyday constraints that will affect this.

Just pose the question.

And, listen to the answer.

How do I pursue what I want? Now I know what it is.

Easy.

Ask yourself why you haven’t already.

Say to yourself, ‘If this was one of the first things that came to mind, why haven’t I acted upon it yet?’

Often we pursue not what we want, but what we feel we can get.

What we feel is ‘just enough’ of what we can do.

It’s not we don’t want to chase things. It’s that we don’t feel we’ll cope if we do and it doesn’t work out.

Or perhaps, if it does work out.

our current selves, with our current beliefs, our current skills, and our current experiences, don’t feel we deserve or could deal, with what we really want.

Taking The Jump

So how do you take the jump? And shift.

The truth is, that’s down to you.

Dip your toe in the water, chase it down like a lion…

…it’s whatever you feel is the right way for you.

The key?

Work on the belief systems, and the thoughts about the jump in the first place.

The jump is always smaller, when your self-perception is in order.

Whatever it may be. You got this.

Stay curious,

C