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The Daily Recharge Podcast Hosted By Jovie J. Sumner
June 19th Episode 18- The Daily Recharge Podcast Hosted By Jovie J. Sumner Avoiding What's Important
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Why are you not making time for what's important in your life and how would your life change if you did Alright, alright, alright. I want to welcome everyone to another great episode of the Breakthrough Boss Podcast, the Daily Recharge. I'm your host, jovi J Sumner, and today's Daily Recharge protocol of the day is why do you keep putting off what's important? So this is a topic that really hits home for me for a lot of different reasons, and lately, I would say and when I say lately, I'm really talking about over the last couple of years I've noticed that my ability to procrastinate and put things off has skyrocketed. I'm not sure if this is just excuses, maybe it's just me, is it a symptom or a byproduct of post-COVID living? But it's gotten out of control. It really has gotten out of control. So I really wanted to confront this issue today, because I know it can't just be me and I'm one of those people who I love getting things done as soon as possible and pride myself on that. But I've also noticed over the last couple of years, my ability to avoid doing things that are important has dramatically increased, dramatically. And if you're a man, you pride yourself on getting things done. If you're a man you pride yourself on producing, to be truthful and achieving what it is that you want to achieve.
Speaker 1:Now, I think one of the main reasons that we, as men, sometimes will avoid doing things that are important or things that we don't want to do, is to be truthful. Sometimes it's just laziness, and this is a word that I, quite frankly, I fucking despise that word laziness. I do not like that word, I do not care for that word, but we got to call it what it is, and we all have areas of our lives where we feel lazy and areas of our lives where we don't want to really do what has to be done. And the key, I think, is to really get to the root of why is it that you don't want to do what you know has to be done? What is it that you're avoiding when, like case in point, let me use myself, for example I've not been checking my mail lately, and when I say checking my mail, what I mean is I'm not looking at my bills that are coming. Obviously, I don't want to look at the bills, but I got to look at the bills. Right, the bills have to be paid, so the bills would just pile up, and I learned I think it was from Jack Canfield. He said you should only touch your mail one time. You should touch your mail like one time. You look at it either you're going to take care of it now or you know but you look at it once and that's it and you're done with it, right? I got a whole fucking pile of mail that's just sitting around laying begging, dying for attention literally, and I'm like what the fuck is up with me? This is not me. I know me. I'm normally on top of stuff. I'm getting my stuff done.
Speaker 1:It's like I've gotten complacent and that kind of laziness if, if we're not careful, it will stack up. Here's what I mean when I say it will stack up. You'll put it off today, then you put it off tomorrow, then you put it off the day after that, and after a while you got a totally brand new habit that you didn't even realize or want, because you kept saying I don't feel like it or not. Now that's exactly what I've been doing, and now I've developed the muscle of laziness and it didn't previously exist. So I got to reverse that habit, kill it, get it out of there and start getting back into habit of just doing simple things as soon as it's time for me to do those things that I know that I got to do.
Speaker 1:I think another reason is also what I call the later syndrome, which is just the first cousin of laziness. The later syndrome is just a way of getting out of doing something that you know you need to do today, or right now, or immediately, and all of those words are closely interrelated to as soon as possible, because it shows a sense of urgency, it shows a willingness to act in spite of your mood, regardless of how you feel, and, as they always say, a body in motion tends to stay in motion. However, if you keep putting things off until later, now you're in motion and you have momentum towards procrastination, which goes back to laziness, and we all again have these areas where we have to really just. We have to tackle these areas, because if we don't, then what happens is later, is like someday. It just never fucking comes. So what I'm proposing is for myself and for anyone who catches this podcast today, is get in the habit of doing some small things when you find yourself putting things off until later on, when you find yourself not wanting to do something that you know you need to do, find something small that you are willing to do. And it's ridiculous as it may sound like, oh, that won't make a difference. It will, because then you'll get the momentum going back in the right direction. Then you'll get the momentum.
Speaker 1:And sometimes, I think, subliminally and subconsciously, it's almost like a form of a very subtle form of confidence. Sometimes, you know, it's a habit when we do things when they need to be done. It's a habit when we do something immediately. It's a habit also when we procrastinate. It's a habit when we say I'll do it later. And those are some of the phrases that you really want to catch yourself using oh, I'll wait until later. Listen at that word. Wait, I'll do it later, later. I don't feel like it. See, listen at that phrase later, later, I don't feel like it. See, look at, listen at that phrase. And really that phrase is telling us something about ourselves. It's telling us that that we're allowing our emotions to dominate us instead of mind over matter. The matter is over mind, and that's what we don't want. And when we find ourselves going into those spaces, we want to reel ourselves back in and get back focused and get re-centered and get disciplined again and turn the momentum in the opposite direction, against itself, to start things to going back towards the direction that we want them to go. Let me say this Another reason I think that we will not do things that are important is because sometimes we just don't really have clarity, and when we don't really have clarity, we will wait or we will not execute or not take action or not do anything.
Speaker 1:And the reality is we don't really have a lot of clarity. We haven't specified what we want to do. We haven't specified exactly what we want. We haven't specified why we want something. We just have a vague, abstract idea or desire. And clarity truly is power. However, we have to be specific with our clarity and we have to be detailed with our clarity.
Speaker 1:You know, if you know what you want and you don't know why you want it, you're in the ballgame. You have the first equation. However, the juice is in the why. That's what's going to get you into action. The juice is in why you want to do what you want to do. The juice is in why you want the outcome you want. You know why you want the money you want, why you want the female or the relationship that you want, why you want the house or the career or the business that you want. That's where the juice is at. You got to have them both. You got to have the what and the why, because if you don't, you're being vague, and vagueness won't get you what you want. It'll keep you in nowhere land. Trust me, I know all about this all too fucking well.
Speaker 1:So we got to get some clarity about exactly what we want and why we want it. How is it going to look, how is it going to feel, what's it going to take, what's the plan to get from A to B to Z? The more clarity we have, the more certainty we have, and certainty gives us the power to take action when we don't have clarity and we don't have details. And I'm not saying be overly detailed, because I think that can kill the dream or our vision just as fast as not having any clarity at all. However, you want to have some details, you want to have a plan, you want to have a map, you want to have a game plan and you want to know which direction you're going and when you need to go and where you're going. Just those things who, what, why, where, when, how, what. Did I say that? Right, but just having those kind of questions that you ask yourself and you put the time and the energy into defining those things and answering those questions will give you a lot of certainty and it'll give you a lot of momentum and a lot of drive and a lot of power too.
Speaker 1:Anytime I'm not taking action, I know I don't have clarity. I know I don't have clarity, I know I don't really know what I want and I know I haven't taken the time to define what it is exactly that I want. The last reason that and I'm not saying this is the only last reason, but the last reason I say that a lot of times also, we're not doing what's important is because a lot of times I think we have inner conflicts about things that we may say we want Right. Sometimes we think we want something until it comes time to do what's required to get it, and sometimes we'll do what's required to get what we want and then get it and then find out this is not really even what I wanted, this isn't what I thought it would be. So sometimes we have to go inside of ourselves and we have to really go deep and we have to really say is this what I want? Am I willing to do what's required to get it? Because if we have those inner conflicts, we may want it and be unwilling to do what's required to get it, which will result in us not taking action or postponing or procrastinating or making excuses. Or sometimes we can think we really want something and deep down inside we're not really willing to do what's necessary.
Speaker 1:We may have a deep-seated fear, we may have some hesitations or some doubts or some worries, and those are the parts that we really got to go inside and do the inner work, because those things, those emotions and feelings, can stem from many years ago. They can stem from childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, even. You know your present life. You know you may be experiencing some things and you know you may say I would love to be a billionaire. But when you find out what that's really like you may be, really it may not be what you want, it may be too much for you. You may say you know this is not the lifestyle that I desire to have. I remember when I was growing up I used to think I wanted to be famous, until I realized these people have no privacy. When you become an A-lister. You have no privacy, people in your bushes. You're out with your family, people always want your autographs. You now are a public piece of property in a sense. You have no more privacy. And after I got a little age on me, I was like I'm so grateful I'm not famous, because I don't desire to have that kind of fame, you know.
Speaker 1:So sometimes we have to really just clearing up any of those inner conflicts and, like I said before, sometimes we have to go within ourselves and we have to eliminate doubt and replace it with faith. Sometimes we have to go in and see if we're being fearful and we have to muster up the courage to act in spite of that fear. We have to do those things. We have to get in a resourceful state and do those things in spite of how we feel. And we have to develop that as a habit. And when we do that now we are developing the habit of overcoming procrastination, the habit of overcoming laziness, the habit of overcoming putting things off until later, when we carve out the time to create clarity about what we want and why we want it and what it will take to get it. Now we're giving ourselves a roadmap and a plan that we can follow with certainty and we can feel certain and we'll take action and execute, and that creates a greater chance of us creating those results and outcomes that we want and desire.
Speaker 1:Us creating those results and outcomes that we want and desire. And when we go within ourselves and we resolve those inner conflicts, we also increase the probability that we'll accomplish or achieve those goals that we set for ourselves, because now we won't have those old nagging feelings of unworthiness, we won't have those old feelings of the fear of success or the fear of failure or the fear of whatever it may be that you're pursuing. That only you know that you have some conflicts around and sometimes we don't even know it ourselves. Sometimes we need someone else to point it out to us and say, hey, you know you've been saying you wanted to do this for a long time. You still haven't done it. Sometimes we need a friendly set of eyes from the outside looking in, to point those things out to us, because it's hard for us to see those things about ourselves, because sometimes we just want to avoid the truth. But ancient script says you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. It may not be easy, but it is worth it. So that's all I got for you, guys, today.
Speaker 1:If you're experiencing some laziness in your life, if you're experiencing some of what I call the later syndrome, or not taking action, or procrastination, or some inner conflicts, carve out some time, make some time to do some homework and some research and go within yourself and, if all else fails, just start doing some simple things to get your momentum back. Start doing just one or two things here and there and then celebrate that part of yourself. Make that the habit, make that the 21-day habit. It doesn't always have to be something monumental or something huge. Sometimes the biggest results come from the daily small things that we do consistently, and then those things stack up and lead to bigger things. So, as always, remember, stay focused, stay disciplined, stay dedicated and stay hungry, because lines are always hungry for more.
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