James LimExecution & Direction Coach for Ambitious Overthinkers

If you have an idea you want to explore but you keep putting it off...

Name: If you have an idea you want to explore but you keep putting it off...
Uploaded: 2020-11-19T18:28:01+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: James Lim
Description: A short YouTube monologue (speaker: James Lim) diagnosing why people postpone exploring ideas—fear of failure, fear of judgment, overwhelm and…

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A short YouTube monologue (speaker: James Lim) diagnosing why people postpone exploring ideas—fear of failure, fear of judgment, overwhelm and overthinking—and offering one concrete tactic: set a timer and work for a tiny, five-minute slot to break the paralysis and make progress.

If you have an idea you want to explore, but you keep putting it off, here's a reason why, and one thing you can try. We put off our ideas for various reasons. Fear of failure, fear of judgment. We get overwhelmed and we can often overthink things. It can leave us paralyzed and stop us from making any progress. Sometimes we just need to break the cycle. So what can we do? Try giving yourself a tiny slot to work on it. Just a five minute chunk to start. Set a timer and then stop after five minutes.