Someone told the speaker they weren't finishing tasks because they didn't actually want to. The insight: when something feels hard but you push through, it's because you genuinely want the outcome. Recognizing what you truly want helps you follow through on goals.
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I had all these things that mattered. I wanted to do this and I wanted to do that, and it would get me closer and get me closer. And he said to me, you're not getting them done because you don't want to do them. I'm like, what? I stammered, actually, well, hang on. What? Like, I'm not getting them done because I don't want to do them. He didn't say it maliciously. He didn't say it to demean me. He didn't say it like, you know, like calling me an idiot in any other way. That was sort of up to me to do. Like, oh, my gosh, that's the truth. Like, if you think about any of the things that you have done, you think about any of the things that have been hard, you know, really hard. Oh, it's so hard. And you slog through and you do it anyway. It's like you did that because you wanted to do that.