Another situation in which I might ask additional follow-up questions to someone (with a view to helping them get the thing they want to get)……… Is when they tell me “I’m just not ready”.
Which I get.
It’s a feeling we all have a different times.
But it’s one to question.
Firstly, do we need to “feel ready”?
It’s a ‘nice to have’, sure.
But it’s not needed.
We can just choose to do things irrespective of how we feel about doing them……… For the benefits that they will bring.
And safe in the knowledge, from previous experience, that feeling like doing something will come more quickly from doing it than from waiting.
And experience will probably also tell us what’s happened in the past when we finally took action.
And it probably wasn’t that we had “less on”.
We didn’t stop being busy.
The stars didn’t align.
We just got to the point where we were fed up enough with where we are now to make a change.
We probably got even further away from where we wanted to be than we were when we were saying we “weren’t ready”.
We gained even more weight, had less energy and felt even worse.
Arguably even less ready than we were before.
Maybe this isn’t the case in 100% of situations.
But I’d wager it is in a reasonable proportion.
It has been in my experience – both professional and personal.
I made change when I got sufficiently fed up with where I was, not when I felt ‘ready’.
So when we’re feeling “not ready yet”……… It’s powerful to remember that……… We don’t need to feel ready to do something…….. We will feel more ready by doing it…….. And the point where we do take action is likely to be when we’ve had enough of where we are now, not when anything really changes (it’s www.myrise.co.uk/apply if that’s you now)
Much love,
Jon ‘or not, here I come’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
