61. Decision to commit

The Pleasure Project with Dana Skoglund · Sep 30, 2022 · 6m

The #1 reason you are not doing the thing you've been thinking about and talking about is because you haven't made the clear decision to commit. Decide comes from the Latin word decidere — which means "to cut or kill off". When you make a decision you cut yourself off from all other options. You draw a line in the sand that says, "I'm doing this". Before that point, it's all too easy to delay, procrasination and find perfectly good excuses why you can't do the thing. The problem is all those open loops are a slow drain on your energy. But once you commit, it's actually relatively easy to show…