Friends, there are times in our lives when we have to make a decision. We can think about stuff all day long and put things off, but eventually…eventually, we somehow come to the point of ‘I’ve had enough of this. Something needs to change.’ Right? I don’t know what it is, sometimes. I don’t have a formula for why this happens to me or anybody. But it does. We sit on the sidelines and watch. We listen to others succeed and we wait. We have these thoughts of how we want things to be but we don’t act. Why is that? Why do we act this way? Why do we think this way? We’re either a player in the game or a spectator. For me, I’d rather be in the game but a lot of times talk myself out of it. So…I end up being a spectator. And sometimes I just over think things. I convince myself that either I can’t do it or I shouldn’t do it. So, I don’t. But then looking back, there are times when I ‘pulled the switch’ so to speak. I didn’t talk myself out of everything. There are times when I took some risks. I reached a point in working a certain terrible job and I quit. But as you’ve probably heard in episode 1 of the Podcast, I quit without a plan. And that was a mistake. I should have had a plan in place, not just ‘I don’t know what I want, but I know what I don’t want’ perspective. But for some, planning is part of their psyche. Planning is what they do. That’s how they think. That’s who they are. My wife and I are making vacation plans again, right now. She’s a planner. Research is part of her psyche. She enjoys it. She spent years doing physics research when she came to the US and had that as her identity. But then she found that after assisting in the classroom, her new love. The love of teaching. But she never would have found out if she hadn’t tried something different and left her comfort zone. I love doing this Podcast. But a few years ago, I never would have thought that I could do such a thing and that it would take off around the world the way it has. But I stepped out of my comfort zone and bought a USB low end professional grade mic and gave it a shot. Why was this out of my comfort zone? I didn’t like the way my voice sounded and didn’t think that it was good enough. But, after seeing and hearing what others thought of the Show, I kept going. And I’m glad I did. Did I wing it this time? No. I worked out a plan for the Show. I did some research. ·       Target audience ·       Show name ·       Logo ·       Content ·       Hosting ·       Hardware ·       Software ·       Promotion You get the picture. And I found that it was very doable on a low budget. Whatever I didn’t know, I could learn. So, I stepped out of my comfort zone and stepped into a new direction for my business that I didn’t anticipate when I revised my business plan 2 years ago. But if I had just sat on this idea and only thought about it, I wouldn’t have a thriving, growing, influential Show like I have today. If I had just stopped with the planning process, all I’d have was a good plan. What good is that? And I keep bumping into people that are really into planning. They’re really good at it. But they stop with that. And they can’t get past that. They don’t use the plan. What good is a plan if you don’t use it? And I was just talking to someone recently that had this problem. He was stuck in the planning stage. He knew what he wanted and he had a vision for his future and how he wanted his life to be, but he has a hard time implementing. I don’t know if it’s a fear of failure or a fear of success. I can’t figure it out. But planning feels like you’re doing something productive, right? Planning is actually doing something. And we feel safe planning. We don’t have to commit to anything when we plan. But this episode is about ‘Doing Something Now’. It’s about taking action. And I’m just going to refer to this as