Unleash Your Potential: JUST DO IT - Secrets of Success Unveiled!

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is: Just do it.

Over to you, Jack Dorsey.

Just do it. A lot of time is spent thinking about something.

Oh yeah.

Talking about it. But when you actually get something down, either on paper or in code or in front of someone, that's when things start happening. And you're going to make a lot of mistakes. The important thing is that you make decisions and you keep moving forward. But you have to get it out there. You have to start and you have to be brave enough to take the criticism. I always go back to the punk movement of the '70s. People would get out, they'd be on the street, they'd start Because you were a teenager back then. Yeah, and they would be learning in front of people. They get out on the street and it's the first time with a guitar.

Yeah.

And, you know, they're learning how to play and they're getting better and better and better.

Yeah.

And I think it's really important to just get it down. Do it.

Just do it.

Edit, edit, edit, edit.

So what do you think?

The absolute first thing that comes to mind is that that's the Nike slogan and that's awesome. You know, just do it. I think everything that we want in our life, whether it's business success, whether it's, you know, we want to achieve, you know, our passion projects, it's the relationships that we want to have, whatever it is that we want to have in our lives really comes down to us taking massive action to getting there. And I think a lot of people get stuck in the planning phase. In the "I have an idea" phase, but "What if this happens?" phase, right? But they don't get acting, they don't jump in and actually start doing things to start, you know, getting things in motion, right? Law of inertia, right? Things that are in motion stays in motion, right? And I also think that when you start doing things, you're not asking— you're asking better questions. And what I mean by this is that in the beginning when you're not doing anything, you're asking questions like, "Well, what if everyone that I love rejects me? What if everyone around me makes fun of me? What if I sound stupid? What if no one watches?" Right? You're asking all these questions that are coming from a place of lack. So instead of coming from a place of lack, you have to ask better questions. And when you start doing things, now it's questions of refinement. How can I get more viewers? How can I make my content more compelling? How can I storytell better? How can I do XYZ? So the frame of it is you're not looking— you're not— it's not coming from a place of, am I enough, right? It's coming from, I'm already doing it, right? Now how do I get this to be better? And I think that's really moving the chains, right? It's really actually getting you to the place that you want to be.

Moving the chains, right? It's football.

Yeah, moving the chains. There you go.

Um, yeah, I think so many people are so afraid to fail that they don't even try. So If you guys want to start a YouTube channel, right? A lot of you have— may have a goal. I want to be a YouTuber. Great. And so I'm not going to start though until I get the camera and the tripod and the lights. And I got to research and I got to watch all these videos about how to be a YouTuber and, you know, buy the ebook and listen to the podcast and all this stuff about how to be a YouTuber before I start, because it has to be perfect first step. And if it's not perfect, then I'm not going to do it. And you never actually get in front of a camera and make a video. Right? You're the world's expert on lights now, and cameras, and gear, and all this stuff, and you've never even made a single video. Right? People plan and prepare, and so worried about making that first step. There is no perfect first step. The perfect first step is to do something, and to stop just thinking about it, and stop just planning, and to actually take some action. There are some people who just do and go crazy, and they do too much and they don't plan enough. But most people plan way too much, and they don't ever take any action because they're too afraid. Because they're afraid, they go back to what is safe and comfortable, which is more planning, more planning until I figure out all the answers. You won't figure out the answers until you actually go out and start taking some action. So whatever is that thing that you've been putting off, or that big scary project, or like, one day I'm gonna do this, just break it down. Do one small tiny thing towards making it happen. Not some big step. Don't go sell your house. You know, don't go take out a big mortgage, don't do something crazy. One small simple step, and then tomorrow another step, and tomorrow another step. And people I think are too focused on taking giant leaps, where if you look at the people who've taken the giant leaps, it's just an accumulation of little steps that they've taken consistently. Just do it.

Yeah, I think it's every day showing up, right? It's being consistent every day, doing something, creating something, right? And it doesn't mean you have to create— let's Take your example of someone starting a YouTube channel. It doesn't mean they have to now do 7 videos a week and, you know, they're amazingly overwhelmed. It's about creating 1 video a week and then just getting in that practice of thinking about creating and, you know, having, building that creating muscle, right? And in that example, I think that's helping people to just go out there and actually do it. So the question of the day today is, what is one moment in your life where you saw someone or you did just do it mentality and it worked out or it didn't work out.

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