In this episode, Howard takes us through 3 sections that explore many of the challenges people face when getting started with something new.

Section 1 -

Three kinds of people who have trouble starting.

1. The nonstarter
2. The stutter starter
3. The repeat starter

Section 2 -

He also identifies some of the many excuses we have used for not starting

1. I can’t do that now…or
2. it’s not the right time
3. I don’t know how to do it
4. I have never done it
5. I will be bad at it
6. I will not be able to do it
7. Once I start I don’t know what to do next
8. My friend told me it was a bad idea.
9. Someone said that is just a trend
10. Social media says…

Section 3 -

In this section, Howard goes to the core reasons that are really driving all the excuses and other reasons we may not have started. He identifies and discusses these 5

1. Change
2. Fear
3. Resources
4. Can’t ask for help
5. Don’t really know what you want

Inspirational quotes from the show.

“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got” - Jim Rohn

“The Greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started” - Dawson Trotman

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let’s begin to let our lives speak for themselves. The question becomes have we done enough for our lives to truly have a voice or is our life mostly in our own minds and hearts and yet to find its way into the things we will someday actually do?” - Howard Marcus

“Try and fail, but never fail to try” - Jared Leto

Links to the movies mentioned staring Jared Leto

Morbius

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5108870/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Suicide Squad

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386697/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_1

Link to the book on change mentioned in the episode

Switch: How to change things when change is hard

https://www.amazon.com/Switch-Change-Things-When-Hard-ebook/dp/B0030DHPGQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1649699093&sr=1-3

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