Episode 350 - The Dr. Cloud Show - Shorts - A Lack of Follow-Through vs. Over Commitment
The Boundaries.me Podcast
Greg Bowler
4.7 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this highlight from the show, Dr. Cloud talks about follow-through. We all commit ourselves to getting things done. Whether that’s helping out a friend, or telling our spouse we’ll do something, whatever it may be. When we fail to get those things done, we might think it’s because we lacked follow-through. But is that it? A lack of follow-through implies that something could have been done but we failed to execute for some reason. In many instances the issue isn’t the follow-through, it’s committing to something when it will overstretch our capacities or resources. How much is on your plate? What can come off your plate to open up your availability? Your problem might not be follow-through, but the inability to say no.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | This is Albee, the producer of the Dr. Cloud Show. |
| 0:12.7 | We're so happy to have you with us. |
| 0:14.3 | Today, Dr. Cloud is going to be talking on the subject of follow-through. |
| 0:19.1 | The initial idea was that when follow-through is your problem, |
| 0:23.1 | your problem might not be follow-through. What does that really mean? Sometimes a lack of |
| 0:30.9 | follow-through isn't due to our inability to execute on something. It's due to our inability to say |
| 0:37.4 | no to the commitment in the first |
| 0:40.1 | place. So what can we do about that? Well, Dr. Cloud's going to talk about a few different |
| 0:46.3 | techniques of looking at what you're committing to, why you're committing to it, and why you might |
| 0:51.9 | not be able to follow through on it. |
| 1:00.7 | And just a quick reminder about our upcoming workshop called Narcissism in Relationships. |
| 1:05.9 | This one's about dealing with that toxic person in your life that's narcissistic tendencies are driving you crazy. You're going to learn all kinds of ways to protect yourself and confront |
| 1:11.7 | those narcissistic tendencies and others. It's on June 28th at 5 p.m. Pacific. If you can't attend |
| 1:18.3 | live, you can stream it afterward. It's not a problem. Stream it as many times as you like. |
| 1:22.2 | We'll have the recording available within 48 hours of the event. Go to Boundaries.Me forward slash |
| 1:27.0 | narcissism or click the link at the description to Boundaries. Dot Me forward slash narcissism |
| 1:27.7 | or click the link at the description |
| 1:29.4 | to find out more. |
| 1:30.9 | We hope you enjoyed this podcast coming up. |
| 1:33.8 | One of the things that really builds trust |
| 1:35.2 | in a relationship is when we can trust someone |
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