Do The Hard Thing

Today’s podcast goes out to all the entrepreneurs… Everyone putting their skin in the game, cash on the line, and choosing into the game of business and development. Those who take extraordinary risks to bring ideas and services to life that few have the audacity to pursue. This one is for all of you who Bother With It.

Most of the time, when you begin something new, something different or out of the ordinary for yourself… you’ll face all kinds of questions and challenges.

And many people are shocked to learn that the most ardent challengers tend to be those who are closest in terms of relationship or friendship.

Today’s podcast goes out to all the entrepreneurs… Everyone putting their skin in the game, cash on the line, and choosing into the game of business and development. Those who take extraordinary risks to bring ideas and services to life that few have the audacity to pursue. This one is for all of you who Bother With It.

Most of the time, when you begin something new, something different or out of the ordinary for yourself… you’ll face all kinds of questions and challenges.

And many people are shocked to learn that the most ardent challengers tend to be those who are closest in terms of relationship or friendship.

Millions of people tuned into their Pay Per View Television with friends and at bars all across the world last night to watch undefeated Floyd Mayweather come off a 2 year retirement to take on the UFC's poster child, mouthpiece, and champion Conor McGregor.

If you think about it, you may wonder what if anything either fighter had to gain from this bout.

When i finished recording the first episode... the zero episode, I had this thought run through my mind that was something along the lines of, "It's all downhill from here!"... like all my issues with getting started and rolling on this project were over.

We'll... and here's your spoiler alert: They weren't. Not even close.

My commitment, at least initially, is to create a new podcast and have it ready in advance each Monday for syndication... So I thought to myself, you know... I'll have plenty of time to create content and plenty of time to come up with ideas that can truly be useful... And however true that was, it didn't work out that way for me this week. This first crucial week. The week that would determine if I make or miss my target for consistency...

Today, I get to introduce this podcast and use my creation of this podcast as an example.

The title, of course, refers to me doing the hard thing... which has been getting this podcast named, setup, and started. I originally created a podcast with 2 partners about 2 years ago in the fitness space, however we had a parting of ways and I did not continue that project.

It was a great experience, and I enjoyed doing the shows. So really... it didn't make sense for me to take so long to get this new show going. And, because I found moving on this so difficult, I started seeing this same behavior show up in others. All the ways people sabotage themselves as it relates to movement toward the thing they claim to want most.