Anxiety comes from the in between of the doing and the thoughts preceding before the doing. Imagine you want to do an act, anything. It can be writing, reading or walking your cat. But instead you only ruminate about the thing, thinking about it, but never doing it. What is that? It’s anxiety. You never get anywhere in life if you just only think about wanting to do that thing but never acting on it. 

Why do we procrastinate and what can we do about it? I’m asking for a friend. I struggle with making excuses that I’m hungry or tired. I can’t work right now. But I was thinking earlier, what if I had all the money in the world would I still be doing what I’m doing?

Possibly, but in a different country. But I’d still be writing to you once a week, hosting the podcast, creating content with creatives and building relationships. I may be in a different community, but I’d still be in the act of doing what I love, which is connecting with people in an intentional way and asking them insightful questions about their story. See, being a journalist really isn’t that hard. Sure, it takes risks from time to time. You talk to complete strangers and you don’t know if you wholeheartedly believe anything they say. 

But you know who you can believe?

My cat Stella. She’s been meowing the entire time when I’m trying to concentrate and write this newsletter to you. Back to procrastination. This is an epidemic. People not doing what they want to do in life and instead busying themselves with distractions. I was doing that for the last few hours until I remembered that I need to go through my budget for this month. But then I remembered, it’s better to do your budget at the beginning of the month rather than the end of the month.

A budget is like a forecast of the revenue you are bringing in each month and predicting the expenses you will have and making sure you come out positive so you can survive the next month and so on and so on. Most adults don’t know how to budget. For me, I’ve always loathed money. As soon as I get it, I go blow it to buy a new computer. But for real, I haven’t had an actual computer in literally years. So it would be nice, since more of my work is behind a computer and to have an actual real computer would be sweet. 

In other news, procrastination again can take many forms. Imagine what you have already read and you think deep and hard why you are here. Is it to learn something insightful, because Don’s so smart when it comes to building a personal brand? Or do you want to support me by just reading my stuff. I don’t know. I’m not you. But if I was, I would imagine that I really like this dude with great hair and wish he would write more like this stream of consciousness style ranting like some self absorbed millennial.

Because, let’s be real, we are all self-absorbed to a certain degree. That’s just being human. So I’ll take that one for the team and I’ll let you know you should go act and stop thinking about what you want out of your life and just live it.

Trust this helps you in starting a personal brand and if you need help you can always book a discovery call here and I’ll guide you on this online adventure.

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One Eleven Podcast Episode 24 - (NEW) Athena Evans Coach Kay

Athena Evans (“Coach Kay”) is a Colorado Springs entrepreneur and financial/business coach. She is the founder and CEO of Amagio Solutions, with services centered on financial consulting and career-development coaching.

The discussion covered professional development, the creation of a financial application, and long-term entrepreneurial impact goals.

Professional Journey And Pivot
A transition from initial failures in dropshipping and credit repair led to a broader coaching philosophy. This evolution emphasized leveraging credit as a strategic tool rather than avoiding debt.

Developing Financial Platform
An all-in-one financial application is currently under construction using Artificial Intelligence tools to streamline business networking and resource access. This hub connects entrepreneurs with mentors for funding and education.

Scaling Impact And Vision
Future growth relies on expanding business holdings to facilitate eventual philanthropic efforts across various communities. The long-term objective involves becoming a public speaker to teach financial literacy and wealth.

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