In any of your life where you feel stuck, you know what you need to do, to move the needle, to change your career, to improve your health, to work on your marriage. The information is everywhere. And in fact, if you're listening to me right now and you go, Genecia Alluora, you are wrong. I have no idea what to do. I just know I'm stuck.
Go to Google and type in. I hate my job, and you will get hundreds of millions of links. You will probably find 100,000 videos that are made by people who have been stuck in their jobs, who will walk you through a step by step process that you could take in order to change the what is easy. The issue is how how do you make yourself take actions when you're afraid, when you're scared, when you're overwhelmed, how do you break bad habits? How do you break the negative thinking that is causing you to feel paralyzed?
See, the problem for most of us is we think about what we need to do. But thinking won't change your life. The only way you're going to change your life or change your career or change your health is to take action. And so the reason why so many people get stopped by procrastination and stopped by fear and stopped by anxiety is because they never get past the part of just thinking about it. And I believe that we all have a habit that I call the habit of hesitation.
And in psychology, psychologists and researchers say there are basically two types of people right there's people that have a bias transaction. And those are the kinds of people that when inspiration strikes or when confidence strikes or when courage strikes or when opportunity strikes, they tend to lean toward it and to take action. And based on research, those people tend to be happier, healthier, more successful, more fulfilled in life. And then there's the rest of us and those of us that have what psychologists call a bias towards thinking, which means in a moment of uncertainty, a moment of opportunity, a moment where you need courage or confidence.
Instead of leaning toward it, you lean away from it and you start thinking, what should I do?
And it's that habit of hesitating in moments of change that is keeping you stuck. We call it procrastination. We call it overthinking. We call it a lot of things, but it's just a habit of pausing. And then you trip into patterns of thinking and patterns of behavior that have been holding you back for years.