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Welcome back to Success with Srini. On the podcast today, I’m answering a question that has come from a listener of this podcast. His name is Vijay and he’s asking a question that is related to my June 1 podcast. In fact, I’m recording this on June 1. And what I’m going to do is I’m going to send this recording to Vijay. And if he approves, then this is going to be available as a podcast on my podcast, and I’m going to release this on a future date. If not, then I will not. I’m going to wait for his approval to do it. He says, “Hi Srini. This is Vijay, I started to listen to your podcast in mid-March. Thanks for doing this. It is immensely helpful. Regarding today’s episode, which is how to prepare for the opportunity. I did exactly something. Identified my opportunities, identified my gaps in skill, put together a plan, and tried to execute it. It all went well for a month. But now when I get to my focused block time for doing the prep, I’m not able to do it. I don’t know how to put it. I know I just need to start the process but am not able to do it. Could you suggest what to do to get over this stubborn resistance?”
Brilliant question, Vijay. In fact, for everybody who’s listening to this podcast, hoping they will be, which is referring to the June 1 podcast, June 1, 2022, podcast where I talked about how to prepare for the opportunity, as he refers to back. I said, talent, time, and team are the three ingredients that you need. Obviously, you need to figure out the gaps in your skills, then you need to make an investment in terms of time and money, both time and money are investments. And I also suggested that you need to have the support ideally the support of a team, I suggest that please go to June 1 of 2022. And listen to that day’s podcast where I talk in detail, I cannot illustrate this. Now as a part of the podcast, I talked about five things that you need to successfully overcome this challenge. And which I’m directly talking to you on this now, you’re referring to stubborn resistance. Now, there are different reasons this could be happening.
First and foremost in the podcast, I talked about purpose, initiative, imagination, discipline, and courage. These are the five ingredients. I hope you heard that. So on the very top is the purpose and at the very bottom is courage. Now, every time somebody experiences a resistance towards anything that they want to achieve these two, the top one purpose and the bottom one, courage, two are compromised. In my observation, I could be wrong. But these are the two reasons you need to focus on purpose, maybe the purpose is not clear. And that’s why the purpose is not well defined, the meaning is not well attached. And that is why when it comes down to execution, you know, the brain is defeating itself, there is a possibility of that may be that you have a tendency to wait for the vent to kind of come beneath the wings before you take off. Most people do most people, they just don’t find those themselves in the groove that waits for something to happen before they become serious in executing the work. And there is also could be an element of procrastination happening there too. You should check into that. Now. I want to also do this when I refer to the term called support in the team. Is it possible that the work that you’re trying to do during your block time? Can that work be outsourced? or can that work be done by somebody else, maybe you need somebody to talk to you during the time maybe you need some different kinds of accountability, maybe the accountability in itself is weak. Could be I gave an example of something like this on this podcast many, many months ago, maybe a few years ago.
You know, this was back in 2004, 2005. I was getting ready to put together a course on real estate investing. And I was thinking and thinking when I was never really putting it together as months went by. Days went by weeks went by months went by and almost a year went by. And this was becoming very hard actually a couple of years went by. This was dominant on my mind, but I was not doing anything about it. And the way I broke the cycle, the resistance was built-in accountability to myself. What I did is I went to a very expensive hotel in San Jose, I booked a room and I took my camera did and I said I will not leave the room unless I record this entire course and not leave the room. So the room was costing me about 200 some odd dollars a day and I will Now be stuck in the room to just get this done. Not a silly experiment.
Later on, what I’ve done with all my future thereafter, all the future courses did seminars like spend $1000 to $2,000. Or we can put a seminar together a record, the seminar becomes a course, that was the evolution from that point on. But this is how I broke my stubborn resistance. I want you to start building some accountability if you think that your purpose and your courage are correct. Okay, for purpose and courage are correct. I want you to build accountability in the middle. If not, I think this is mostly because there’s an element of procrastination going on. That’s what it is. Because it’s unusual that somebody identified the opportunity, understood the gaps, understood what needs to be done and the skills, and there is a plan in place. And kind of something’s happening when it comes to execution. It’s not right. So one way to also decode this is to go back in the sequence backward, which is, is my plan, correct? Is my gap analysis, correct? Is the opportunity that I have identified, is that, is correct? So I want can go trace backward? And that will eventually lead to the purpose, which is, is it even? Am I right to begin with? You can also ask that question. So give it a try the way I’m approaching this, and see if this helps. But I think this is an accountability issue, you need to build some serious accountability. So you need to isolate yourself from just not blocking the time, but you need to really position physically place yourself to get something done. Change the environment, change the location, change shift the time blocks around to different parts of the day, and find your optimal mental state to execute the time block.
Hopefully, this is helpful. I think I answered your question. If not, let me know. And then we could go back and forth on this. Now if you’re listening to this podcast as a podcast or listening to this, maybe you have an idea on how to deal with this. Now, I suggest that you go back to the June 1 podcast, and listen to it. And listen to today’s episode. And if you have some suggestions that you want to share, let me know to text me at 888-818-0404. And I will make sure that your suggestions go back to Vijay. Okay, that’s all for now. Wherever you are, be safe, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Bye now.