You Can Do Anything. That's the Problem.

How are you? Well, come on in here and happy Wednesday. Let me ask you a question. Do you feel or have you been told that you can do anything? Really anything.

And you believe you can, right? But have you noticed that sometimes that might be the very problem you have, that you feel like you can do anything? I need a boost.

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Motivationtomove.com. So somebody along the way told you, you can do anything, right? Maybe you told it yourself. Maybe it's how you pump yourself up in the morning.

I can do anything. We've all done that. And we all completely believe it, right? And we were absolutely right in thinking that because we can do anything.

But my belief is that's exactly why you're not growing. I had another sentence I was going to put there. I have a note that I put on my page. And that's exactly why you're stuck.

When I got to reading it on the podcast, I said, I don't like the word stuck. I just don't like it. When I'm stuck, I am not in a good mood. Them's fighting word.

That's a fighting word. So I said, maybe it's a reason you're not getting what you want. You're not growing. But congratulations, because you can do anything.

And that is your problem. So let's break this down a little bit. So anything versus everything. So close. So far apart, right? You can do anything. Now, what does that mean?

Metaphorically, I guess. it's one door you open, you go do it. And then you close the door, you go do something else. Any door you want, just do it. It's true.

One at a time, just do it. I think that's how I look at anything. I want to do that. It's like going to this place in Oviedo, Florida. It's a food court.

I think it's called Oviedo in the Park. And they've got like 10 restaurants in there. We like to go there with some family members who live over in that area. We used to live there as well.

And my wife and I walk into the food court and I said, what are you going to get? She goes, I don't know, maybe the... The Greek. And I say, well, I'm going to pizza for sure, or maybe Mexican.

And we just go our own way and we buy our own food. We come back. We choose one. I can't go to multiple. Sometimes I'll steal part of hers. But the thing is, I can choose anything there, but I can't have everything there.

You can do everything. That's true. I could, I guess. You can walk through all the doors at one time. That's really hard to do. Can you imagine my table if I went to all 10 restaurants and just did everything?

You've done it? I've done a version of that. I'll admit it. Man, so what ends up happening is that because you can do anything, you kind of won't close anything.

They kind of sit there and you're stuck doing a little bit of everything, even though that's not your plan, and you finish nothing. That's a loop. That's motion without movement. Have you felt that way before?

got all this going on. I don't want to close the door. I'm going to open these doors at the same time and get that going on too. And before you know it, you're just in this kind of endless loop motion without movement.

Happens all the time. The freedom that you're supposed to have is kind of keeping you apart. Isn't that a strange thing? I have the choice. I have the ability.

Maybe you've earned it. Maybe you've got some money. Maybe you're feeling settled. You've got a peaceful base built now that can do anything you want to.

Problem is you're trying to do everything. So I think we have to look at anything as a door. Everything is a hallway. One door is open to you. Anyone you want, just pick it.

That's a gift. Everything is like standing in the hallway and you're trying to walk through all the doors at the very same time. You can't do it. So what do you do?

You kind of stand there. It's kind of a trap. A door feels like freedom. So you won't shut one door. A little this, a little that, none gets finished, right?

Every door stays cracked, basically. And as long as they're all a little bit open, you never have to pick. That's not freedom. That's a treadmill with a very nice view.

Have you done that before? I bet you have. I don't think you're indecisive. I know it's not me, but I really hate the sound of a closing door. I hate it.

Do you hate it? I don't like the word no, and I don't like to be shut out. MIT, a school for fancy people, smart people, they built a video game one time, and people paid money to go play the video game, and they gave away money when they played the video game. And these doors, and the doors were on the video game, and if you ignored the doors, they would shrink and disappear.

This would be gone. So remember, you got money when you went to these doors. So instead of staying in the best place, the best area, the best room, and just keep earning good money, people, what they did is they burned clicks, and they went from door to door to door before they would shrink and disappear.

doors they didn't even want. And they made less money because they kept going to all these doors they didn't even want instead of staying with the one they did want. The truth is, you're not broken at all. They weren't broken either.

What we don't want to do is feel lost. You feel lost when you close the door. But we're losing anyway if we don't close the door. And if I ask you right now to think back in your life, of all the times you've done when at some point you feel, I can't give it up, I can't give it up, I can't give it up, and then you did.

And you had real freedom when that happened. Everything changed. It doesn't, by the way, happen in normal life a lot, I don't think. It has to have some stakes to it.

It does happen a lot when the choice is big, when all the options are really good. Man, when you're not sure what to do, you're just kind of stuck, right? Your career, whatever your next thing is going to be, your whole life, actually.

That's where anything eats your life. I spend so much of my time with my clients. I would say this is probably, yeah, I would say it's probably the most important thing we talk about.

I ended up being a sifter and a sorter. I ended up helping them make the decisions. I look at the hallway and I said, which door have we gone through? I figured that out.

And yes, we can do more doors. We just can't do them all at the same time. But every door has a price tag you never see, right? You pay it when you go through the door that you kind of half walked into.

You're paying a price when you do that. The work you never went deep on, the years maybe. They kind of slip by while you keep your options open. Doors aren't free, man.

You're just paying it in a currency you can't see. I'm not sure if it's a true story. Maybe it's one of these motivational stories about the general who, I don't think it's true actually, but the general who marched his army across the river or the ocean and then he set the boats on fire. No retreat, only forward and they won.

Like I said, I don't know if it's true or not. I actually don't think it is. The result is still what you want, right? So what do you do? Well, you have to close doors on purpose and you walk through the ones that matters most.

Now, that is probably one of the most lame answers I can give you because it is a truthful answer. It's the exact one you need to be doing. And yet, how do you do that? Like I said, I spend a lot of my time helping people figure that one out.

And I do it a lot for myself too. A lame answer. But let's accept the lame because if the lame answer keeps coming in, it's like, man, I don't like that answer. I don't like it.

It doesn't mean it's not true. You got to shut a door or two. And that's how anything turns into something really real. So yeah, you can do anything. And now you know that's the problem.

Anything's a door, everything's a trap. Pick one, shut a couple, burn the boats if you have to, even imaginary boats. That's fine. You know what to do now.

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