1552: It's time to get out of research phase

0:00Hello, Meg here. Before we get into today's episode, I want to share with you a bit about today's sponsor. So if like me, you're trying to get off screens more and add more reading to your life, you're going to absolutely love the Willoughby Book Club. The Willoughby Book Club is a women-owned women-run, fully independent book subscription service. There's no algorithms, there's no AI, just a bunch of fabulous humans. With a shitload of passion for books, who are there to help you find your next really great read? So whether analogue is your word of the year or you just need permission to take some time for you, head over to the Willoughby Book Club.co.uk and let them choose your next great read and don't forget to use DailyPep at the checkout to get 10% off your order. Now on to the day show. Good morning DailyPepers and a very happy Wednesday to you. It is half day and we are very

1:04nearly halfway through the week. So for today's episode, I thought I would share with you something that I have been needing to remember a lot lately and I've got a feeling I'm not the only one. When it comes to new things or creative projects, we are both very conscientious. We want to do a good job and we are also fiercely curious and what that means is that sometimes we can get stuck in the research phase for slightly too long and then the whole thing just gets even scarier. What I found is there tends to be a bit of a sweet spot where you know the next step and you're still excited and your dream shitter hasn't taken centre stage yet. I often find that if I linger after the sweet spot, I tend to start talking myself out of it, I convince myself I just need to do more research and there is always more to learn and there is always more research to be done.

2:04So this is my official reminder to both of us that we will learn what we need to along the way. As long as we are not self teaching ourselves open heart surgery, which we shouldn't be anyway. Chances are we can pick up the skills along the way and often we really do learn so much more and also so much quicker by just doing the thing. So if you are finding yourself stalling, if you've moved past that sweet spot and if you're in a dream shitter is cheering all of the research on, then now is the time to take some imperfect action. Chances are you already know enough, you can find out what you don't know when you need to and it will probably also be a lot easier to get going because you're actually enthusiastic while you're doing it and you've got the momentum rather than having to talk yourself into it. You know enough, you can learn the rest on the way and just be discerning for when research becomes a helpful thing to hide behind

3:08because it feels more comfortable than starting. Remember all the things that you've started before, don't worry if you haven't finished them that's not what we're talking about. Just lean into that first imperfect step and give yourself some forward momentum and if you want to find out more about your own patterns and what might help you get started and what tends to make you stop and you haven't already taken my rebel archetype quiz, I think you're going to find it really helpful and you can find your own rebel archetype as well as some very fun dolly part and gifts over at the rebelrises.com for a sash quiz. I'll see you tomorrow.