When there is a sizeable lingering goal in your life, starting can feel daunting. Imagining you reaching your goal can feel impossible. The main task is to do anything that moves the needle. We aren’t talking about action faking, as coined by MJ Demarco. An example of action faking is reading more books about the goal. If you want to be a video creator, not fine-tuning the google algorithm, focus on making the video. We are talking about actually doing it.
Do you want to start your own business? Find your first customer. You want to lose weight, go for a walk or go to the gym. Splitting the goal into tasks and how much needs to happen each week can make you feel you are making progress. When you track this, you start getting the internal feedback that you are working towards it.
If you find out you don’t like it, you can always stop. Make sure when stopping, you have done enough to feel you have given it a good try—a hundred iterations of your goal, coined by Noah Kagan. Once there, you will have an idea if this is a goal you want to continue or if you want to stop. Time wasn’t wasted even if you stopped; you learned more about yourself. Process trumps all.