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Blog 219 – Blast Off Combined with Embrace The Suck

The 5 second rule or Countdown and Blast off technique is working! I realize that motivation is not reliable, especially for things that are hard, new, tedious, scary, uncomfortable, or borun; yet are the things I know I should do.

That is the key, knowing what to do AND acting on it. The embrace the suck concept is a similar strategy and useful in combination with the blastoff method. Blast off gets you going and embracing the suck keeps you going. These in combination helped me clean the kitchen yesterday. They also helped me hold a hard conversation, and endure a suit buying junket last night, Uuugh! All things I had been putting off.

Acting on what you know you should do is a decision. Acting immediately sounds impulsive,  but it is not. You’ve already  thought about it too much. Now you must blast off and do it and embrace the suck.

Ben Wagner (226)

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