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You know what to do. So why aren’t you doing it?
You know the thing. You’ve thought about it for a year. You’ve told people about it. You’ve told yourself you’ll start as soon as this other project wraps, as soon as the money steadies out, as soon as you feel ready. And that day keeps moving.
In this episode, you sit in on a real Rapid Transformation Session with my guest Attila, a woodworker who designed something he believes in, a modified Swedish ladder with attachments for pull-ups and gymnastic rings, and then sat on it for a year. He knows exactly what he wants to do. He just hasn’t started.
Together we move through two acu-emotional resonance points, brain balancing, a whole brain breath, mind movies of the life where it’s already happening, and a higher self inner inquiry that gave him an answer he did not see coming.
Follow along and do these neuro-somatic processes with us. Add your own visions and cues when the time comes. This is where excuses fall to the wayside and thoughts become things.
“It’s Just Laziness”
When I asked Attila what holds him back the most, he listed a few possibilities. Being on camera. Having to explain the movements. The video editing. The setup. Then he landed on the word he’d been using on himself for a year.
Laziness.
I hear that word in a lot of sessions, and it almost never survives the session.
By the end of ours, the honest version had surfaced. He was standing in front of something that would take five months of daily effort, and the size of it kept him frozen at the starting line. That’s a very different problem than laziness, and it responds to very different tools.
If you’ve been calling yourself lazy, get curious about what’s actually underneath. Usually it’s the weight of the whole thing landing on you at once.
Two Points That Tell Your Body It’s Time to Move
I chose two acu-emotional resonance points for this session, both aimed at scattered energy and stalled momentum.
The first one is at the crown of your head, right where the very top would touch the floor in a headstand. In Chinese medicine it’s called the place of 100 meetings. It promotes calmness, clarity, and mental harmony, and it connects body, mind, spirit, thought, and feeling. We rolled the point with steady downward pressure to release excess energy, calm the nervous system, and bring energy back down into the body.
The second is Leg Three Mile, four finger widths below the kneecap on the outer shin. There’s a legend behind this one. Chinese warriors hiked across the countryside wearing leather sashes with stones hanging at the waist. When they were too exhausted to continue, they knelt to rest, and the stones landed right on this point on each leg. When they stood back up, they found renewed strength and could hike three more miles.
It’s the point for feeling scattered, unmotivated, and stuck at the edge of the next step. I told Attila this could become part of his morning ritual before he starts filming. You touch the crown, you roll the leg points, and your system gets the signal. We’re about to get going here.
Brain Balancing and the Whole Brain Breath
Next we balanced both hemispheres with cross-body marching. Arms open like goal posts, opposite hand tapping opposite thigh, chin forward, eyes up and to the right while counting down from 20, then up and to the left for another 20.
Your right hemisphere handles emotion and creativity and runs the left side of your body. Your left hemisphere handles logic and analysis, and it’s also where you go down the rabbit hole and over-mentalize yourself out of taking action. Turning both on lets you see possibilities that were hidden a minute earlier.
Then we did the whole brain breath. Ankles and wrists crossed, thumbs down, fingers interlaced, ten big open-mouth breaths in each of four positions, switching arms and legs between rounds. After the last round we exhaled everything out and held on empty, then took one enormous inhale and squeezed the entire body from the feet to the scalp.
That breath creates a floaty, heightened state that opens the door to visualization and intuition. Which is exactly where we were headed.
Building the Mind Movies
We opened up a white space with no floor, no ceiling, and no walls. Pure potential. A mental playground.
Then I asked Attila what he would see in his life that would let him know he’d done it, and we built three visions, each about 30 seconds long, like an Instagram story of a moment already happening.
The first one came fast. He’s in his shop in the morning, cutting and sanding and drilling, the smell of sawdust everywhere, contentment on his face. Sawdust means work is getting done.
The second one was his own shop, not the temporary carport. Tools, a small office, a display room where people can try the ladder. He’s showing a woman how it works and she’s amazed, seeing everything this one piece can replace. She wants one for her home and her gym, plus a few for her clients.
The third one put him on-site at a customer’s house. She’s leading him into the garage. It’s a birthday present for her husband. They’re talking through the studs, the height, the finish, all the customization that goes into each ladder.
Then we did a bonus round on the actual sticking point, the recording itself. He’s in the garage at 7am with the camera clamped to his woodworking clamps, filming a leg stretch on the ladder, talking it through. He walks over, stops the recording, and feels good about it without needing it to be perfect.
We finished by anchoring the feeling. I asked him what he’d say to himself while he was doing it, and he said, “Time well spent.” One word for how that feels: satisfying. He found it in his chest, light and weightless. Orange. A cool sphere with a low hum.
When your body knows what the win feels like, it starts steering you toward it.
Poking Holes in the Goal
This is a part of my process people don’t expect. Once we build the vision, I try to break it.
What’s the downside of buckling down and doing this? Fewer video games. Earlier mornings. A morning routine that has to hold.
Attila looked at each one and decided he was fine with the trade. Video games move to the weekend. He’s already up at 6 anyway, so filming at 7 just gives the morning a shape it didn’t have.
When you check the cost out loud and choose it anyway, your system stops quietly negotiating with you in the background.
Why I Told Him Not to Wait Until August
Then we hit the real block, and it wasn’t in his subconscious. It was in his calendar.
Attila had a plan. Finish the current projects by end of July, then hyperfixate on the 100-day challenge starting in August. Clean, logical, and completely doomed, because he also told me he needs paid projects coming in for financial stability, and paid projects arrive by word of mouth without any effort at all.
So August becomes October. October becomes February. That’s exactly how a year already disappeared.
I told him to start next week.
Not because the conditions are right. Because they’re never going to be right, and waiting for them to be right is the pattern that produced the last twelve months. Life happens in the construction zone. You record one video in the morning, you post it, and you go do your paid work. Thirty minutes. An hour if you’re being generous with yourself.
There’s a thing in mechanics called a flywheel. It takes real energy to get it turning, then it spins with almost nothing. You are the flywheel. The only version of this that works is the one where you start before you feel like it.
He said, “Can’t argue with that.”
What His Higher Self Showed Him
We closed with a higher self inner inquiry. Whole brain posture, five minutes of quiet, one question: in order to focus on this work and do it every day Monday through Friday, what do you need to see, hear, know, or understand?
What came in was so specific it made us both laugh.
Get rid of the sleep mask.
He explained it right away. The mask lets him sleep in. Sleeping in lets him stay up late. Staying up late is where the discipline falls apart. That one small object was quietly protecting the whole pattern.
Sometimes the answer is a belief. Sometimes it’s a piece of fabric on your nightstand.
The Action Steps We Landed On
Attila wrote these down during the session:
- Bed around 9pm, Sunday through Thursday
- Wake with the sunrise, Monday through Friday
- Coffee, a quick bite, wash up, then straight to the ladder
- Record one video, post it, move on with the day
- Add a call to action to every post: free estimates for a custom ladder
- Set up a booking link so people can grab a 15-minute call without back and forth
- Post to Instagram, auto-share to Facebook, then add it to YouTube Shorts and TikTok
He starts next week and runs it Monday through Friday for 100 days. He also gets his weekends back, which is the part that makes it survivable.
What Are You Waiting For?
Here’s what I want you to sit with after listening to this episode.
The thing you’ve been putting off has a story attached to it, and the story usually sounds responsible. I’ll start after this project. I’ll start when I have the money. I’ll start when I know how to do it properly. It sounds like planning. It works like avoidance.
You already know what you’d need to do tomorrow morning. You’ve known for a while.
So let me ask you: if you stopped waiting for the right time, what would you start this week?
Press play, do the processes with us, and let your body find out what it feels like on the other side of starting.
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