Welcome to the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Now, here's Dave with an intentional mindset minute.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson with another intentional mindset

minute where I share quick hits from my latest book's intentional mindset and

elevate your excellence, and we post them on Fridays to help you think right, do right, get better,

and become more. Here is the topic. It's not half the battle. You know, it's common to say,

and we've all heard people say it, knowing the problem is half the battle. Simply not true. Give you an example. If I am

40 pounds overweight, thankfully I'm not, but if I am 40 pounds overweight and I know what the

problem is, I eat too much and I don't exercise. I am still 40 pounds overweight. If knowing what

the problem was, was half the battle, 20 pounds would magically drop off my rear end

when I came to that conclusion. I would also say that having the action plan is not half the

battle to say, well, here's what I need to do. I'm going to go to the gym three days a week,

and I'm going to eat 1,700 calories a day, period. Well, until I start doing that, I'm still 40 pounds overweight, so the battle has not even

begun, much less is it halfway through.

And so we have to understand that life rewards action.

The battle can't be half done until you start fighting the battle.

I highly recommend you deemphasize action

plans and prioritize action in order to create better outcomes and actually win this battle that

you think is half over just because you understand what the problem is. You know,