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The Mind Your Body Podcast: Tools for Healthy Transformation

#34: Escaping the Gap Between Knowing & Doing

Escaping the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

In our last episode, Episode 33, we discussed the importance of setting the right goals and creating a realistic plan to help you reach them.

Today, we’re going to backtrack a little to address the dreaded gap between knowing and doing.

So many of us are living in the chasm between feeling like we SHOULD do something (eat better, exercise, meal prep, go to bed earlier…) but just NOT doing it.

We talk endlessly to our friends and family about it, we think about it constantly, we guilt trip ourselves every evening, and yet we’re STILL not taking action.

What IS that?! Often, we don’t even know what’s happening here and it’s zapping our emotional energy, mojo, and mental bandwidth.

  1. Overthinking: Overthinking without action often leads to frozen inertia. We think we have to have the perfect plan in order to make progress. We think we’re such a HOT MESS that a complicated, battle worthy plan is necessary for us to unravel all of our “brokenness”.
  1. Overwhelm: We think we have to go ALL IN in order to move the needle. This leads to a sense of overwhelm before we’ve even taken one step.
  1. Resistance: Internal resistance or rebellion can come from a variety of sources.
  • FOMO: We may have an underlying sense that it’s unfair that we have to eat differently than the people around us.
  • Lack of support: The people around us may not want to make any changes and this can make it really hard to get motivated to take action.
  • Pain point isn’t acute enough: We may simply not feel sufficiently compelled by our situation to make the sacrifices necessary to do things differently. I think this is the biggest - and least recognized - culprit that keeps us stuck in that gap between SHOULD and taking action.

Living in the gap between knowing and doing is a damaging state of existence. It’s SO draining! If you’re simply not ready to take action, LET IT GO for now.

Consider setting a date on the calendar to reevaluate in a month or two and make a conscious effort to not think about this until then.

We’d love to know your thoughts. Was this helpful? Do you have other topics you’d like to hear us discuss? Let us know on our MYB Facebook page!

xo,

Lisa and Jenny, co-hosts

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