Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast, the number one mindset podcast in the

entire world. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button

so you never miss another podcast episode. Today, we're going to be talking about how to take action,

how to do the thing that you are resisting so much in actually doing. We're going to talk about

doing what needs to be done in order to create the life that you want. Because really,

if you actually think about it, life is not hard.

You are where you are right now, and there is a place in the future that you want to be.

And the only way to go from where you are now to where you want to be is to get your ass up and do what needs to be done.

But why don't we do it?

And so I actually found this. I was trying to figure out where it came from. I don't know who actually wrote it. I found it on a couple different websites. One of them was

Strangestloop.io. Another one was a guy named Gareth Williams. And it's this thing called doing the

thing. And I'm going to read it to you. It's an article that I think is perfect for what we're going to talk about today.

And here's what he says. Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the

thing isn't doing the thing. Making a to-do list of the thing isn't doing the thing. Telling people

you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Telling people you're going to do the thing, isn't doing the thing.

Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing the thing. Writing a

banger tweet on how you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Hating on yourself for not

doing the thing isn't doing the thing. Hating on other people who have done the thing

isn't doing the thing. Hating on obstacles in the way of doing the thing isn't doing the thing.

Fantasizing of all of the adoration you'll receive once you do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing

the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing is not doing the thing. Reading this essay

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