Hey, everybody, it's Eric from the one you feed and I'm doing something a little bit different today. It's just me and I'll be talking to you about one of the concepts that comes up on the podcast a lot. I've gotten feedback from a bunch of listeners saying they'd like to hear more from Chris and I who we are, and just hear more from us in general. So this is an attempt at doing that. We don't have all
the fancy audio equipment. I'm not at Chris's, so I am sitting at my house, so this will not sound as good as it normally does, but we will go with what we have, and I think going with what we have is a good way to segue into the concept I want to talk about today because it comes up over and over again on the show, and it's the idea of taking action even when we don't feel
like it. This this idea that our mood we have to be in the right mood to do something, is very pair a list for us, and I'm as guilty of it as anybody. And doing the podcast right now, this actual talking is an example of me trying to break through that I didn't really feel like doing it right now. It's something I've been wanting to do. I had a lot of good excuses about how I wasn't ready, or I needed to do this, or I needed to do that, and finally I simply said, all right, plug in,
let's go. So here we are and and and getting unstuck is is a lot like that. When we're when we're feeling or we're feeling stuck in the spot and unable to take action that we know that we need to take. There are some tools that we can use to break that down. And uh, I think the first tool that is just to realize that we're stuck, that
we're procrastinating, and even recognize what we're doing. Um Todd Henry said on the podcast at one point that you must be conscious of how today's choices beget tomorrow's regrets. So it's important for us just to to to break out of the habitual stream and realize that we are not using our time as well as we would like. And I think that's really a clear first step. The second thing for me that I do is I try and break the work down in my mind into the
smallest possible increments that I can. This does a couple of things for me because I get stuck and have a hard time doing things, usually for one of two reasons. I'll probably think of a third before I'm done, but we'll start with the first to the first one is that it feels overwhelming, it's too much to do it, it just seems like it's a long way to get there, etcetera. So what I do if I break it down into the smallest possible chunk I can, I've just really reduced
the amount of time and the overwhelming feeling. And then the second thing that I run into a lot is that I don't I'm not quite sure what to do or I can't see my way all the way to the end, know the task or whatever the work is. And again, by breaking it down into small pieces of work, I can find one that that I can get after. So, for example, today doing this, I simply said, all right, I'm gonna plug it in and I'm going to talk
and we'll see what happens. And and that was enough for me to break it down into a very small piece. I didn't have to worry about how he'd edit the final piece. I didn't have to worry about whether it was any good, whether it was gonna be any music, I was gonna plug in and talk, and I took the pressure off myself also that it had to work. I was just gonna do it and then um. So that's an example of breaking things down into a really small piece. Another classic one for me is getting through
my email inbox. As an example, if I'm overwhelmed and there's a ton I will just set a timer for myself, you know, I'll set it for two minutes or five minutes and say, all right, I'm gonna get started on this. It's usually enough to get me moving, and then when the timer goes off, I'm usually in motion and I can keep going. And that has been a way that I've learned to tackle all kinds of things, whether it be clean out my email inbox, recording the podcast exercising.
Exercising is one where it's a it's let me get the clothes on to go to the gym. That will be my first thing that I do, so I break it down to that level. Cleaning the house is another classical one. Set the time or five minutes, let me see what I can get done. Usually after five minutes, like I said, I'm moving, I feel better and I
want to keep going. And this is something I think that we all wrestle with, and I do think it's one of the key components to living a better life, is to being able to motivate ourselves when we don't feel like it, we're not in the mood. Our moods are extremely capricious and not a great way to base our life on how we feel. And yet I think that's what a lot of us do. I know I certainly have done that plenty of times in the past and and still can do it today if I'm not
not staying on top of it. There's a there's a phrase that says something like we can't think our way into right action. We have to act our way into right thinking. And this is an example of that very small breaking the task down into the smallest increment that I can think of, and then committing to doing that increment and ideally committing to do it right now. It seems to help an awful lot with doing those things. So that is all for our short little chat here together.
Hopefully it was helpful to you guys. I love the listener feedback. I'd love to hear from you. You guys, anything that you want to hear more of, you want to hear less of. UM, it's it's great to hear from you. I know we're getting lots and lots of listens and downloads, but the more I hear from you guys, the better that is. So thanks so much for listening to the show. I hope that it's helping you in feeding your good wolf and we'll talk again soon. Thanks very much, See Yah