When you're stuck, generate ten different options instead of giving up. Dave Kashen walks through how to challenge the belief that you can't do something, and why feeling your feelings matters when you're blocked.
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If something doesn't work out, just try a few, try a few more options. Like if you're not good at scheduling and planning ahead, come up with 10 other options and keep exploring them and see what happens. And I told him that I tried to shift away from my phone and didn't work. He goes, well, try a few other options. We found one way that didn't work out. And the reason I say that is this sounds so hack. It sounds like if anyone's listening to this, they go, this is the mind-blowing revelation. If something doesn't work, try something else. I get it. I had a block in my brain that told me that there's certain things that I just can't do. And it wasn't until Dave had some, I don't know, relationship leverage on me, until he opened up awareness in me that I was able to accept, oh yeah, these are things that I've accepted that I'm not good at and I've shifted my attention away from them. So those, those are just two things. Feel my feelings, number one. And number two, uh, to actually accept that there's certain, some things that I think I'm not good at and look for 10 other options, 10 other ways to do them before