You're Not Too Busy. You're Scared - Scott Kompa

5AM Catalyst Call · Aug 11, 2026 · 4m

You already know what you should be doing. Call the leads. Follow up. File the taxes. Post the video. So why don't you do it?

Here is the uncomfortable answer. The gap between where you are and where you are capable of being was never a knowledge gap. You are not one seminar away. You already know. Knowing is the booby prize.

In this episode we take the costume off the excuses we hide behind, "I'm too busy," "I'll do it tomorrow," "I need to prepare more," and name the thing underneath them. Because the task you are avoiding is not hard. It is scary, and those are two very different things…