BRX Pro Tip: Do the Thing
Stone Payton: Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor, Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I think you’ve run across and maybe even re-read a piece of work that really had an impact on you and it’s about just do the thing.
Lee Kantor: Yeah, this is something I discovered a while ago. It’s a newsletter I subscribed to. It’s called strangestloop.io. You can go to strangestloop.io, and then you can read all this person’s work. They have a ton of essays and thought leadership.
Lee Kantor: But they wrote this essay and I quote it now, regularly when I talk to any aspiring entrepreneur, any aspiring artist, anybody who would like to do something that they’re not doing it right now, and I think that everybody here would benefit from hearing it. So I’m going to read you the entire essay. It’s not that long, but, this is a great piece of advice. So this is what they say about doing the thing.
Lee Kantor: “Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing. Telling people you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Writing a banger tweet about how you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on other people who have done the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on the obstacles in the way of doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Fantasizing about all the adoration you’ll receive once you do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading this essay isn’t doing the thing. The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.”
Lee Kantor: So I think that’s super important that a lot of people are trying to do everything but the thing. And I think the only way you’re going to move forward is by doing the thing. And you can go to strangestloop.io for more from this person. But please, today, start doing the thing.
