Life-sucking Lie #3: The Timing’s Not Right
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
How often have you put off doing something uncomfortable and told yourself the timing's just not right?
The timing will be better when, if, then, because, after.
So you wait. And you wait. And you wait.
Did you do what you said you were going to when you got more money, more time, more resources, more stability? More often than not, you probably didn't.
Sometimes, bad timing is a legitimate issue. But, equally if not far more often, it's not. Instead, it's an excuse for avoiding the uncertainty of doing something new. It's not based on sound analysis and intelligent exploration, but rather fear and avoidance. Driven largely by the desire to not have to wade from a place of certainty back into the uncertain abyss, even when that place of unknowing is the gateway to stunning possibility.
That's what today's Good Life Project Riff is all about.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Camp GLP. |
| 0:06.0 | What is it? |
| 0:07.0 | Well, we're taking over an amazing sleep away camp about 90 minutes outside of New York |
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| 0:12.8 | At the end of August, it will be an incredible blend of about 350 entrepreneurs, makers, |
| 0:18.5 | world shakers, and just regular people looking to connect to hang out, to rejuvenate, to |
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| 0:29.0 | That feels like a pretty cool place to be at the end of August. |
| 0:32.6 | Then go ahead and check out the details at GoodLifeProject.com slash camp on to our show. |
| 0:42.8 | We're circling back to our lives that keep us from success series. |
| 0:47.3 | And this is number three. |
| 0:48.3 | And if you haven't heard number two, then just jump back in our podcast and you can hear |
| 0:53.3 | them. |
| 0:54.3 | What we're talking about today is a lie that we tell ourselves very often. |
| 0:59.6 | And it stops us from doing things that make us uncomfortable but also hold the possibility |
| 1:05.4 | for the extraordinary. |
| 1:07.4 | What is that lie? |
| 1:08.7 | Hmm, the timing's just not right. |
| 1:12.0 | So I've heard this a number of times, but I've also said this probably way more often |
| 1:18.8 | than I've heard it. |
| 1:20.3 | And it's the lament of so many people where you're just waiting for the universe to line |
| 1:25.6 | up perfectly. |
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