forcing yourself to take action creates resistance, embodying your future naturally dissolves obstacles and excuses.

I don't believe in repetition. Well, I do believe in repetition, but I don't believe in forcing yourself to repeat something. While I do believe in taking hard actions, I don't believe you should force yourself to take them.

Instead, what I suggest is that you build in your head, in your brain, in your mind, in your body: you build confidence while imagining, seeing, feeling, tasting that future already now.

Because behind every action you want to do, behind everything you want to achieve, behind every bit of self-actualization, as Maslow said it, behind every single thing like that, there is a sensation, there is an emotion, there is something you want to feel, there is something you want to be.

Being It Now

When you are being that thing, this sensation, that emotion, that being, that state of mind, you can bring it to the present. And if you bring it to the present, you are this already.

And once you are this already, you are operating as if you are this already.

And when you are this already, there is no resistance. When you are this already, there is no forcing. There is no "fake it until you make it." Because you are already this. You can already feel the sensation in your body. You are already acting on that higher level.

Not About Easy, About Natural

So instead of saying "I need to force myself to do things that are good for me", I'm not here to say everything's got to be easy, right? Sometimes you need to break habits. Sometimes you need to take different choices or be more conscious about the choices you make. Yeah, of course. I'm not saying it's easy. I don't think it's easy. I think it's radical. I think it's crazy.

But I do say that it's not about forcing yourself.

It is about looking deeper, unpacking everything there is to unpack inside of you, creating that self-image. And then the action, the activity just happens naturally. Building that compelling future. You bring it to the now. And you're acting from a place of the now.

When you do that, when you are that, everything just works for you. Not because everything will be great now, but because you are acting and you're trying. And after you fail, you will need to do that again. Building the same image, building the same future again.

The Real Obstacle: Excuses

The biggest obstacle is not the resistance of "I have to force myself to do this." No, the biggest obstacle is the excuses you're telling yourself about that image, about that future compelling image.

The excuses, the lack of belief you develop once you fail, or even once you succeed in some stuff. Doesn't matter. The excuses, the BS talk - that's what's standing in your way. That's the problem.

Letting go. Letting go. And building again that real voice inside of you, that real thing you want to do, that exact image you want to create, exactly what's within you, what's alive in you. Exactly that.

You do that enough times, that future will become your reality.

Walk As If You Already Made It

Walk as if you already made it. And it's not about faking it. It's about embodying it. It's not about faking it. It's about embodying it because you can embody the sensation you think you will achieve after you achieve what you want to achieve. That sensation, you can embody it in this moment.

The problem is the excuses.

You Need a Coach

And how you will break your excuses is really difficult. You need a third person. You need another person that will listen to you without judgment, that will listen cleanly to you, that will ask you powerful, deepening, learning, insightful questions. That third-party person that will not listen to your excuses but will bring the alive part out of you.

We all need a coach. We all need a good coach. We all do.