You'll Never Feel Ready (The Art of Taking Action)
A single-take talk on closing the gap between knowing what to do and doing it, in three steps: ask better questions, grant yourself permission, and move before you feel ready.
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Big Idea
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Action is the visible result of invisible mental patterns, so you take more of it by training those patterns, not by forcing yourself to just do it.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
You have a clear vision, like a launch, a business or a career move, and keep stalling on the specific actions you already know you should take.
You catch yourself waiting to feel more confident, more certain or more prepared before you post, pitch, ask or start.
You tend to punish yourself after a misstep, and that fear of judgment is what keeps you from trying the next thing.
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TL;DR
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Most people already know which actions would move their vision forward. What stops them is a set of mental patterns that make action feel risky. The speaker offers three steps to retrain those patterns. First, swap questions like what if it fails for what if it actually works, so your imagination pulls you forward instead of pushing you away. Second, give yourself explicit permission to begin, be a beginner and get it wrong, which removes the judgment that follows mistakes. Third, move before you feel ready by reading discomfort as growth, the way you read gym burn. Small actions count: do not judge a brick for not being a house.
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The biggest gap in life is the one between knowing what to do and actually doing it.
Action is the visible result of invisible patterns, so forcing yourself harder treats the symptom and not the cause.
Your brain answers whatever question you ask it, so asking what if it fails makes it rehearse rejection and embarrassment before you've tried anything.
Asking what if it actually works doesn't guarantee success, but it makes the future compelling enough to move toward instead of away from.
Many people turn confidence, certainty and perfection into entry requirements for acting, then wonder why they never start.
If you give yourself permission to fail in advance, you can't also judge yourself for failing. You already allowed it.
Feeling the sting of a mistake is normal. Turning it into a verdict on who you are is optional.
You don't wait to get strong before you train. You train to get strong, and action works the same way.
How do I feel ready is the wrong question, because your brain searches for an answer, finds none and tells you to wait. Ask how you can act even when you don't feel ready.
Discomfort in unfamiliar territory is what developing a new capacity feels like, not proof you're unprepared.
Your vision can be bigger than your current capacity. That means you need to grow alongside it, not shrink it.
Imagination builds the whole picture in an instant. Reality gets built piece by piece.
Do not judge a brick for not being a house. The beginning and the end of anything you build look nothing alike.
Takeaway
Train the patterns behind action
WHAT TO LEARN
Taking action gets easier when you retrain the questions, rules and interpretations that make it feel unsafe, instead of relying on willpower.
Replace what-if-it-fails questions with what-if-it-actually-works, because your brain rehearses whichever answer you ask for, and a compelling picture pulls you toward action.
Say your permissions out loud before you start: begin before I'm ready, be a beginner, be seen trying, get it wrong and learn. Pre-approved mistakes leave nothing to judge afterward.
Stop treating confidence, certainty and perfection as entry requirements. They are rules you invented about when you are allowed to act.
Swap how do I feel ready for how can I act even when I don't. Waiting for readiness sends your brain searching for answers it can't find.
Read discomfort like gym burn: a signal that a new capacity is forming, which you can breathe through instead of treating as a reason to stop.
Judge small actions by what they build toward. A brick isn't a house, but the house only exists because you keep stacking bricks.
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There is one thing that separates the people who turn their ambitions into reality from those who spend their lives wondering what could have been. And it is not necessarily talent, intelligence, or even opportunity. Because you can have incredible ideas, you can have enormous potential, you can have the knowledge, the skills, the passion, the drive, but without this one thing, so much of that potential, it remains untapped.
And that one thing is your ability to take action. Action is power. If you look up the word power, it literally means the ability to act.
And the problem is, most people, they already know the actions that they need to take. So the question is, why don't they? What is actually stopping you?
Why do you hesitate? Why do you overthink? Why do you wait until you feel ready?
And more importantly, how can you train yourself forward because there is an art to taking action and it is not just telling yourself to get on with it so in this video i am going to show you how to stop talking yourself out of the things that you want and start talking yourself into them and how to move forward even when you don't feel ready and how to avoid one of the biggest mistakes that ambitious people make that keeps them from achieving what it is that they know they are capable of Because in this video, I want to show you that there is a way to take action that can build your confidence, that can create certainty, and that can make hard things feel easy.
Because when you learn how to do that, you stop being someone who simply has a vision for your life. You become somebody who knows how to turn that vision into your reality. Hi, I'm Jodie Jackson, a neuro conditioning specialist who uses neuroscience to train your brain for high performance so you can rewire reality for the results you most want.
So I want to start by just asking you a question. Are you somebody who has a vision for their life, right? Something that you genuinely feel called to actually create or achieve or bring into the world.
And I imagine that you are given that you are watching this, but here's my second question. Have you ever found yourself avoiding the very actions that you know would actually bring that vision closer? Maybe it was making the call, posting the video, launching the offer, going to that networking event.
Maybe it was asking for the opportunity. And I don't say this with any judgment. If I ask that question to a room full of a thousand people, then I imagine almost every hand would actually go up.
So know that it is not just you. And the frustrating thing is, It's not necessarily that you don't know what to do or you don't want it badly enough.
You do. You can see what's possible. You know what needs to happen.
But there is a big difference between knowing what to do and being able to get yourself to actually do it. And they say that that's the biggest gap in the world. And so I'm going to show you in this video, I'm going to show you three ways to actually close it, right?
Now there are going to be plenty of people that tell you to just start, right? Just take the action. Just do it anyway.
But if it were just as simple as telling yourself to just do it, well, then everyone would have done it, right? But they don't and they haven't.
And that's because action, it is the visible result of the invisible patterns that run beneath it. There are patterns that make you hesitate. There are patterns that make you procrastinate.
There are patterns that make one person see an opportunity and move towards it while other people actually talk themselves out of it. So if you want to become someone who actually takes action, then don't just focus on forcing yourself to do more.
Train the patterns that make the action easier to take. And what I find interesting is that so many of us, we're unknowingly doing the opposite, right? We are training the patterns that actually make action harder to take.
So I'm gonna walk you through three steps that make it easier, right? And step number one to being able to take action more effortlessly is change your pattern. of thinking.
One of my mentors, he says it as simply as this, as I think, so I feel. As I feel, so I do. As I do, so I have.
What you think about, you bring about. And one of the simplest ways that you can begin changing your habit of thinking is to begin changing the habits of the questions that you ask yourself. Because your brain will answer whatever it is you ask it.
So even if now I was to ask you, what is the capital of England? Your brain will automatically actually answer it in your mind. And so the question that we often ask ourselves, the habit of question that we ask us, which actually makes it harder to take action, is what if it doesn't work?
What if nobody buys? What if I embarrass myself? What if people reject me?
These are the common habits of questions and they make action harder to take because your brain will automatically answer and it will start rehearsing everything that could go wrong. You start imagining the rejection. You start anticipating the embarrassment.
Maybe you even feel it. So you're experiencing the possibility of failure before you're actually giving yourself the opportunity to succeed. And then we wonder why action feels so difficult.
because your brain is designed to steer you away from threats. And so I want to invite you to start asking a different question. It's such a powerful question to start making action easier to take.
And that question is, what if it actually works? What if people love what you create? What if you're able to get the promotion, start the business, scale the business, shift your health, whatever it is?
What if what you're about to do actually changes your life or your family's future? What if that little idea that you've been sitting on, it actually becomes something incredible, right?
What if it actually works? Now I'm not saying that asking these questions guarantees your success. Of course it doesn't, right?
But here is what it does. It opens your mind up to possibility. It makes your imagination compelling.
It makes it something you actually want to move towards, not something you feel like you have to move away from, right? And that is why asking these types of questions which creates different kinds of thinking, produces different forms of action, right?
That is why they say, what you think about, you bring about. So instead of imagining everything that could go wrong, begin to give your attention to everything that could go right. Because the truth is, nobody knows exactly what's going to happen, right?
At this point, the future, it only exists in your imagination. So what are you imagining? And I have a video to help you imagine your compelling future, and I'll drop it in the description below.
But when your imagination compels you, right? When it compels you instead of repels you, it becomes easier to move more naturally towards it, right? So that's step number one.
Produce better thinking by asking better questions. Now, here's the thing, right? You can improve your thinking.
You can imagine everything that can go right. You can genuinely believe in what's possible for you and still find yourself holding back. Why?
Because sometimes it's not that you don't believe you can do it. It's you've just created too many rules around when you're actually allowed to, right? So this brings us on to step number two.
Give yourself permission, right? Because think about it. How often do we tell ourselves, before I begin, I just need to be more confident.
I just need to know more. I just need to be sure that this is the right plan, the right decision, right? I just need to be certain that this is actually going to work.
And without even meaning to, we've made confidence, certainty, and perfection actually requirements for taking action. But hear me when I say, you do not need to be finished before you begin. You do not need to be perfect.
Sometimes all you need is permission not to be, right? And I mean that literally. I want you to start giving yourself permission and say it out loud.
Because the way that you speak to yourself matters, right? And so often we are unconsciously telling ourselves what we can't do, right? What we're not ready for, what we might get wrong.
So instead, start deliberately telling yourself what you're allowed to do. I give myself permission to begin before I feel ready. I give myself permission to actually put myself forward for this.
I give myself permission to be a beginner. I give myself permission to actually be seen trying. And perhaps most importantly, I give myself permission to get it wrong and learn along the way, right?
And that last one is really important because think about how hard we can be on ourselves when we misstep, right? When we get something wrong, when it doesn't go as we had hoped, right? We don't just experience the feeling that it brings.
We add another layer of judgment on top. We say things like, I should have known better.
I can't believe I did that. What was I thinking? Here is what is so powerful about giving yourself permission in advance.
You remove so much of that judgment that otherwise might actually follow your actions. Because think about it. If you have already given yourself permission to make a mistake, and then you make a mistake, well, you've already given yourself permission.
Why would you now judge yourself for doing the very thing that you've given yourself permission to do. If I've given myself permission to be a beginner, why would I criticize myself for not being an expert?
If I've given myself permission to create something imperfectly, then why would I beat myself up because it wasn't perfect, right? And that doesn't mean that you won't necessarily feel the sting of, you know, that moment where it doesn't quite go to plan. Of course you might, right?
But you don't have to turn that disappointment. into a judgment about who you are and about what you're capable of. Because if you want to become good at anything, you have to be willing to be bad at it first.
And when you give yourself this kind of permission, taking action, it can start to feel a whole lot easier. But just because it feels easier, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to feel ready to do it, right? And this is why so many people stay stuck.
And that brings us on to step number three in the art of taking action. You move before you feel ready, right? Most people wait until they feel ready and then they start.
And that is why most people, they never take action. Because most of the time, for anything new, if you are going to go after something that you've never had before or built before or been before, then you're not going to feel ready. And so many people ask themselves the wrong question.
They ask, how do I feel ready? And when you ask that, your brain goes off looking for answers and it can't find any. And then it says, oh, okay, well, I guess we're not.
I'll have to learn more or prepare more. Or maybe we'd better wait. So it's the wrong question.
Do not ask yourself, how can I be ready? A better question is how can I take action even when I don't feel ready? And one of the most powerful ways to do that is to change how you interpret discomfort.
Because know this, right? Discomfort, taking action when it feels uncomfortable or you feel out of your depth or it feels beyond you, it's a good thing, right? It is what stretches you.
It's what builds you. And the thing is, and I want you to think about the mindset that you have when it comes to the gym. So if you are running on a treadmill and your legs, they start burning, or maybe you're doing press -ups and you feel your arms beginning to shake, you don't say, maybe I'm not ready for this run, or maybe I'm not ready to hold this kind of weight.
You know that doing it is the only thing that will ever make you ready. You understand that resistance, challenge, discomfort, When it's in the gym, it's the vehicle for growth.
You don't wait to become strong before you train. You train to become strong. So why do we treat our minds so differently, right?
Why is it that when we feel nervous about putting ourselves out there or when we feel uncomfortable about launching a new offer or worried about scaling our business, why is it that we then decide we actually need to feel more confident before we can begin? What if? we started interpreting that discomfort differently, right?
What if instead of seeing it as evidence that we're not ready, we recognize that sometimes this is what developing a new capacity feels like. I remember when I began practicing yoga regularly and I would reach that point in the stretch where it started to feel uncomfortable, right? It wasn't painful, I wasn't hurting myself, but it was uncomfortable, right?
I was stretching beyond what felt normal for me. And something that I used to say to myself in the classes, right? I used to say in my head, sometimes I'd even whisper it, is this is required for growth and I'm here to grow so I can breathe through discomfort and trust the process, right?
And those words, they changed my relationship with the discomfort that I felt on the mat. I wasn't trying to make it disappear. I was choosing to work with it because I understood why it was there.
And you can practice doing exactly the same thing when it comes to taking action for the results that it is that you want, right? When you feel that hesitation, when you recognize that pang of uncertainty or that resistance, instead of automatically interpreting it as a reason to stop, just remind yourself, I am here to grow and I am willing to feel uncomfortable in the process because the beautiful thing about it is the more you practice doing things that feel difficult, the more capable you actually become at doing difficult things.
So when you feel that friction, just smile. That friction is not telling you to turn around. That friction is a biological and spiritual proof that you are standing on the threshold of a higher version of yourself.
So do the thing afraid. Do the thing uncomfortable. And let the result take care of itself while you focus on who you are proud to be becoming.
And this is particularly important if you are someone with big ambitions. Because you can have a vision for your life that is bigger than your current capacity to act on it. But that doesn't necessarily mean the vision is too big.
It just means you need to grow alongside it. And you do that by taking consistent action, right? And by the way, the action you take, it doesn't even need to be big.
The mistake that we make is looking at the big vision and thinking that every step has to match the size of the dream and it doesn't, right? Even the smallest, most ordinary looking step. it actually has so much more power than the greatest unexecuted idea.
And so that brings us on to one final thing that I want to leave you with. Do not judge too soon, right? Because I think one of the biggest mistakes that we make is we have this enormous vision of what it is we want to create.
And then we take the action and the action feels so small compared to the size of the ambition. And this is something, by the way, that I've struggled with as I've been building my business and some of the other parts of my life, right? Because I have this huge vision for the number of people I wanna help, the impact I wanna make, and the cultural shift that I wanna create around how we actually train our minds.
And sometimes, right, when I'm caught up in that vision, the individual things that I'm doing, they can feel almost insignificant by comparison. But here is what I've come to understand. Your imagination, it can create the whole picture in an instant.
But in reality, you have to build it piece by piece. So you can imagine millions of people being impacted by your work, but you actually have to do something in real life to make that happen. And that means taking one action and then another and then another, right?
And sometimes the action... won't feel big enough, or maybe you won't immediately see results. And you'll wonder whether what you're doing is actually making a difference.
Is it even working? But something that I want to say is do not judge a brick for not being a house. And what I mean by that is if you want to build a house, you have to lay the bricks one by one.
And you can lay that brick and you can stand back and say, well, that's not a house. That's not what I imagined. Of course it's not.
It's a brick. But the only way the house can exist is because you keep stacking them. And that is exactly how you turn your imagination into reality.
You do not do it in one enormous, dramatic moment where everything suddenly comes together. You do it through the actions that you take, the decisions that you make, the things that you keep doing even when they seem small compared to what it is that you're trying to create. Because know that whatever it is you're creating, the beginning and the end, they look nothing alike.
And you cannot judge the beginning for not being the end. So do not mistake an unfinished result for an unsuccessful one. And don't underestimate the importance.
of an action just because it looks small compared to whatever your ambition is right your job is not to create the whole vision in one action your job is to keep taking the actions that actually make the vision possible brick by brick piece by piece action by action so just don't judge too soon right and finally having watched this video because you can watch it you can understand it You can agree with everything that I've said or none of what I've said, but the question is, what are you going to do with it?
Because the goal of my content isn't just to help you understand what's possible for you. It's to help you become the person who's actually capable of making it happen. So if you are someone with big ambitions, right, and you are ready to stop just learning about your potential and start deliberately training yourself to fulfill it, then I would love to work with you.
And you can find the details on how you can train with me in the description below. And in the meantime, remember, life is a team sport. I am in your corner with absolute belief in your brilliance.
I will see you in the next video.
The Hook
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One ability separates people who turn ambitions into reality from people who wonder what could have been, and it isn't talent, intelligence or opportunity. It's taking action, and the speaker says there is an art to it that goes well beyond telling yourself to get on with it.
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