Ryan Leak

Okay, so that first one, permission to dream.

Let's talk about it.

Most of us stopped dreaming a long time ago.

Not because we ran out of ideas, but because somebody told us our idea was dumb.

That our idea was impractical or that's not really who you are, right?

I mean, is that what you're going to be doing now?

So what we did in that moment is we buried it.

We settled.

And then we wonder why we feel stuck.

John says, the first step to beating procrastination is giving yourself permission to want something again, even if it scares you, especially if it scares you.

The second permission, the permission to plan.

John has this line and I love it.

He says, planning is visiting the future and taking notes for when you get back.

Think about that.

planning is visiting the future and taking notes for when you get back.

And that is just such a great way to think about it because most of us skip this step entirely.

We go straight from dreaming to doing.

Then we get overwhelmed and we quit.

Or we plan so much that the planning becomes its own form of procrastination.

John calls it procrastinating with a spreadsheet.