JUST START - TAKE THE FIRST STEP | Inspirational And Motivational Video Compilation
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Why is starting often the hardest part?
imagine you're standing on the edge of a cliff and you're looking out at this giant abyss and you know that what you want is on the other side that the very thing you're called to do the journey of a lifetime that means the most to you that you know you should be on but instead of you know making one giant leap you hedge you grab a handrail or a rope, you sort of tiptoe along the outside, bracing yourself for the possibility of a fall. Look, in a perfect world, we'll say, when we know that we should be somewhere when something's calling us, we would always take the leap. And the times that I've done that in my life, I don't regret it at all. In fact, I attribute taking massive action to a lot of the growth that I've had in my life. But I think it also benefits us to be practical. We can't always do that. We're not always ready to do that. Sometimes you have to earn confidence one little step at a time.
And so what I want to do is tell a story about that very courage, about using what you have where you are to start taking action now, even if you're not ready to leap without reservation. It's a reminder that beginnings are rarely graceful, but they're necessary. And years from now, when you look back, you might laugh at the ways you softened your first steps, that you hedged.
How can we embrace imperfect beginnings?
But you'll also realize that starting, even imperfectly, even with training wheels, was everything. And so I want to share a quick story about my friend Clayton. I was recently on his podcast, And we were talking about this, right? Particularly with him, he shares a lot on social media. It's a big part of his brand, his business, what he does. And he also happens to enjoy dancing, right? And by the way, I'm not throwing him under the bus here. He'd be happy that I shared this. So he's saying, I love this. It's a big part of what I do, but it's outside the scope of what people know me for. And really struggled to share it for fear of being criticized or laughed at or, you know, you can fill in the blank there. And he says, so one day I did.
I filmed a video and I'm sitting there for 40 minutes looking at it, terrified, thinking, how can I soften the blow here, right? And he goes, I know what I'll do. Instead of just posting the video, I'll post it, but I'll write this really long essay underneath it in the description about vulnerability and the difficulty in life and some of these things so that people will see that and comment on that and send some positivity there to counteract The negative comments that I'll get about dancing and being made fun of and all these things, you can just see like the circus going on in his brain, right? The loops he's jumping through to rationalize this in his mind. And he says, I'm so embarrassed that I did that. I can't believe that. Right now, I dance and I just post it. Who cares? And not only that, people like it.
And I'm listening to this and I'm like, but that's exactly it, right? We look back at our beginnings and we often laugh to ourselves. Oh, back then I was so naive. I was so scared. I tiptoed in, I crawled before I walked, before I ran. Like it's a sense of shame. You know the phrase, meet people where they are? Well, how about meeting that older version of you where you were? Because back then,
What role does courage play in taking action?
It wasn't a silly hedge. Back then, it was courage. It was everything you had. And yeah, maybe you had to make some small concessions in order to get the train on the tracks. You had to go the roundabout way. In a perfect world, would you have just dove in? Would you have just shared yourself with the world and said, whoever doesn't like this, oh well, it's not for you? Yeah. But we live in an imperfect world where the most powerful thing is not a direct line to a goal or objective. It's starting when you're terrified to begin. Perhaps when that heartbeat in your chest is reminding you that being scared and feeling alive aren't all that different, it beats the same way. The question is, what do you do with it, right, in that moment?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is starting often the hardest part?
0:00–2:03
2
How can we embrace imperfect beginnings?
2:03–4:26
3
What role does courage play in taking action?
4:26–10:14
4
How can we find clarity through action?
10:14–14:27
5
What happens when we embrace our vulnerabilities?
14:27–19:07
6
How can we overcome the fear of judgment?
19:07–22:58
7
Why should we focus on our strengths?
22:58–27:48
8
What is the significance of taking the first step?
27:48–1:01:40
Speakers
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