Speed up the timeline

Through immediate action

I’ve been a procrastinator since I was born. I didn’t get my first tooth until after I was 1 (they usually show up between 3 and 6 months). I’m a Sagittarius, we’re notoriously distracted. And I have an anxious, wandering mind which is just generally my worst enemy.

I saw a Tiktok at the beginning of this year that said the way you quantum leap is by doing everything you’ve said you’re going to do, right now. Everything on your to do list, everything you’re afraid to do, everything you’re procrastinating, do it immediately. Like, today. Or the soonest you can possibly do it. Turn thought into immediate action.

I saw that and thought, that sounds pretty good and is probably super effective….I’ll try it later 😂 6 months later, I was ready. 

My new rule is, if I can do it now, I do it now. Laundry, an idea for my business, a piece of content, renting a Cybertruck and putting our logo on it and driving it around NYC handing out candy. Making an ask. Paying a bill. Calling a loved one. 

When a thought enters my mind, my first instinct is usually to add it to a list. I’m the CEO of emailing myself little to-do notes until I’m overwhelmed with 10s of to-dos piled up in my inbox. Now, instead of emailing the note, I just do the thing.

And lo and behold, the timeline sped up. At the beginning of August, we created a 90-day plan to grow Tiktok Shop and go viral; it happened in 9 days. We said we wanted to hit a certain revenue run rate before the end of the year; we hit it in 3 weeks. I’ve booked trips, paid off debt, started this substack, deepened relationships, and had experiences that normally would have taken months to pan out because of my procrastination and slow execution.

OK but let’s be real: “stop procrastinating” is super annoying advice. So let me expand here. What I had to do in order to shift into a headspace where I could even contemplate rewiring my procrastinating mind was to manage my anxiety and my negative thoughts. Most of the procrastination was coming from a place of feeling like things wouldn’t work out, I wouldn’t reap the desired results for my efforts so I’d rather not do it, stress that things could go wrong, fear that I could embarrass myself, might fuck everything up, etc. It was in quieting that voice that I created the space to move faster.

The number one thing that has helped me quiet that voice has been breathwork. Number two has been meditation, and number three has been prayer.

Breathwork allowed me to process and release stuck emotion from my physical body to shift into a calmer space. This allowed positive thoughts to replace old anxious and negative ones.

Meditation has also helped quiet my mind, tapped me into my core, higher self, and connected me with Source energy. Being in this state has mitigated fear and negative thoughts, and made me feel more tapped into Source and the collective, where nothing can really go wrong because you’re we are all Source energy, we are love, and we are divinely protected.

And prayer has helped me to release outcomes to a higher power, leaving them to deal with the what results might come of my actions. And in turn leaving me to simply focus on the action itself. So a task like recording a piece of video content - I previously might have felt like I bear the responsibility of not just creating the video, but also ensuring that it hits 1M views. Daunting, to say the least. Not something I’m interested in pursuing right this second or have the capacity for. But through prayer and releasing responsibility up to a higher power, now my sole task is to record the video. Someone else will handle what happens with it.

I still don’t totally understand what “quantum leap” means, but I’m pretty sure I’m in one.

Disclaimer: I know nothing, don’t listen to me.