James LimExecution & Direction Coach for Ambitious Overthinkers

You have original ideas but don't ever action them?

Name: You have original ideas but don't ever action them?
Uploaded: 2021-03-23T21:33:15+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: James Lim
Description: A short first-person YouTube monologue (by James Lim) describing a recurring pattern: having many original ideas but failing to act due to…

23 Mar 2021 · 1 min

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A short first-person YouTube monologue (by James Lim) describing a recurring pattern: having many original ideas but failing to act due to procrastination and avoidance. The speaker recounts cycles of initial excitement that fade into procrastination and sinking hopelessness, then explains the practical remedy: create a slow, consistent action plan and process that increases confidence and enables progress.

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You have lots of original ideas, your friends encourage you, but day to day, you don't get started. Instead, you find yourself procrastinating, watching videos for research, finding food to cook and games to play. Then you hit a low when the realization sets in that you haven't done anything and you're still as stuck as ever. This was me. The cycle kept happening again and again. I'd get excited, then it would fade, then a sinking feeling of hopelessness. It would leave me demotivated and not wanting to bother with any of it. There was no quick trick to solving this, but the key was building an action plan and a process that would ease me into it slowly and consistently. My my confidence grew as a byproduct, and things really started to happen.