preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing making it to do list for the thing isn't doing the thing telling people you're going to do the things and doing the thing messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing the thing writing a bang a 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 the only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing and i love this insight that you can dress it up however you want the work just needs doing and you can fluff it and you can change it and you can talk about compounding but ultimately it comes down to sitting at the desk and answering the email opening the word document recording the podcast one of the things that i've found is a really great hack for me i would have no success as a youtuber that i've had being a podcaster because i work well when i have someone else in front of me so there are ways that doing the thing can become more easy but ultimately the work just needs to