Brat McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

You get really excited about an idea to start an exercise program or become a better partner

or get organized.

And then you do nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

It's said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Even if they don't send you straight to Hades, good intentions that go unfulfilled can

lead the real suffering.

When you fail to act on your perennial plans for progress, you end up feeling frustrated,

demoralized, and stuck.

My guest is a clinical psychologist who has spent his career obsessed with how to tackle

the stubborn issue of human existence.

His name is Steve Levinson and he's the co-author of Following Through, a revolutionary new model

for finishing whatever you start.

Steve first explains the unhelpful ideas we have about why we don't follow through,

and that it's real cause comes down to a tension between two different systems within

us.

He then shares the aha moment he had as to how to reconcile these systems in order to consistently

follow through on your tensions and offer strategies on how to put his follow through method

into practice.

We in our conversation with the idea that the greatest strategy for increasing your follow

through is treating your intentions with a seriousness that borders on the sacred.

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