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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Getting Stuck at the Start | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

We resist doing so many things because they’re hard. We start, get stuck, quit, and then try to convince ourselves to start again. But there’s a trick to breaking through these barriers. Turns out, most things aren’t as hard as we make them out to be. In this episode of Mindset Monday, I’ll show you the perspective shift that moves you forward when you get stuck at the start.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Getting started. That's the hard part. Think about it. Like, you know, going to the

0:06.7

gym isn't hard. Getting to the gym seems to be the hard part. Prospecting isn't hard,

0:14.0

starting to make your phone calls.

0:16.0

That's what's hard.

0:17.0

It's not diet is hard.

0:19.0

It's starting the diet that seems to be hard.

0:22.0

Here's my question for you. Are you getting stuck

0:24.6

on the starting part? If the answer is yes, I'd love for you to consider it's a

0:29.5

thousand percent okay to say to yourself whatever you must to start because you and I both

0:38.1

know when you're in action when you're prospecting when you're going to the gym

0:41.0

when you're doing your dieting, whatever the action is,

0:43.2

building your team, whatever it may be, the hardest part is starting and if you can

0:47.6

start to have a better conversation with yourself like, hey listen fairy, get

0:51.5

your button gear or you know what? Hey man, it's going to be hard right now, but when you do this, it's going to be unbelievable.

0:58.0

Sometimes we just got to have that conversation with us versus the conversation you have when you don't do it.

1:04.6

I'm too busy right now.

1:06.0

Look, it's all a conversation.

1:08.6

Start.

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