Episode Details

Why do we avoid the exact thing we most want to do? Because wanting it means we could fail at it, and I have been doing that for years.

I want somebody to stand up at my funeral and say he did a good job, he loved deeply, he had an open heart. That is the legacy. And I procrastinate, avoid going live, avoid all of it. What is shifting now is that the discomfort of not having done it is finally getting worse than the fear of doing it. That is what actually moves people. Not motivation.

One thing to try: Ask yourself what you are doing to avoid the one thing you want to do. The answer usually arrives instantly.

In this episode

• (0:03) Why we fear the one thing we want
• (1:47) Six or seven months of constant sweating, and a health update
• (3:24) Creaking bones, and how the mornings actually go
• (4:57) What I want said about me at my own funeral
• (6:05) Legacy does not have to be grand. It can be being kind
• (7:41) Carrying it a long way, and letting it stop me
• (9:18) What are you doing to avoid what you want?
• (13:36) The discomfort finally outgrowing the fear

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