I Never Follow Through with My Plans

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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I Never Follow Through with My Plans: Jim says he wants to buy a second home, but he never follows through on his extensive research and planning. - Dr. Laura: "Some people just like the excitement of a challenge." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.7	Jim, welcome to the program.
0:11.9	Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you today?
0:14.3	Good. What can I do for you?
0:17.4	Okay, so I've got this dilemma and I really don't know why I do or I would say both my wife and myself.
0:25.6	We, we tend to.
0:29.6	I don't, I don't wait a minute. We wait. We don't need we need to talk only about yourself. Okay.
0:36.2	Okay, myself perfect night. I'll own it. So I, I want to buy a second home. Okay.
0:46.1	And I've got two examples of this. Get real excited.
0:51.3	Do all the research find the area, find the location, find people to help me do this.
0:58.1	Like maybe real estate agent or maybe even a contract to go and find out how much things
1:02.9	cost to get everything up to snuff. And when it comes down time to it where I have something in mind,
1:10.7	I will absolutely back out of it at the last minute. And I say that this is a pattern,
1:16.8	Dr. Laura, because this happened. Well, some people like the excitement of the challenge.
1:27.9	You like that process. I have an idea. I'm researching it out. I'm getting involved,
1:34.3	getting other people involved, getting everybody excited. That's why you do it. Not to have a second house.
1:40.9	Will I ever be able to follow through on anything or is it my you don't intend to follow through because you like only the challenge.
1:54.5	So I don't like to see it too for, you know, to completion. I just right. It's like how some guys keep dating
2:00.9	woman after woman getting divorced married. They like the challenge. To actually be the house owner
2:07.9	with all the responsibilities and the change and the moving and all of that. You're not interested in that.
2:14.0	You love the excitement part.
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