What it feels like when you get out of rabbit hole of Excessive Thinking and No Action ?

Qasim Ali
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4 min readAug 31, 2020

I went into a rabbit hole of failures, short sightedness and useless planning for nearly a month. Now I have realised; It is the action that separates us from failure. Lack of action distorts our view and ultimately throws us into an un-ending stream of confusions / noise and questions.

Rabbit Hole by Benoit Beaumatin on Unsplash

To save your time, this article revolves around 3 x things. Things that change at once after you take a committed action.

  1. You get mixed feelings of Anxiety and Contentment
  2. Influx of ideas 💡 and big thoughts
  3. You immediately put a check on your Time Management

1 — What is anxiety filled Contentment

It is heart pumping, nervousness and a constant fear of failure. You try to hold on to ways, means and beliefs to make sure this time you do not deviate. It is a fight with the inner devil where you are holding the devil on its back, flat on ground. It is breathing right in your face and you fear it gets back up and takes you down.

When you take a decisive action, the fear of devil 👿 dominates you — it leads to anxiety. But the contentment of finally getting into action, keeps you going.

This moment is quiet, liberating and calm.

If you are not finding it calm, it means, your inner devil is taking back its hold on you.

2 — What is my Influx of ideas 💡?

As I am starting journaling my run away from devil and it is my 2nd day. My influx of ideas are as under. I know they are stupidly big, but these are wide open windows that I can decide on and get to working. The immediate ones (plans) I am feeling are as under:-

  • Make a streak website like I did in my first attempt.
Photo of my first attempt — the website is now Down [ my bad ]
  • What are ways, I can take willing writers on board with me.
  • Learn email marketing to grow mailing list.
  • Convert articles into a paper back book — if nothing else works.

These are the kind of thoughts that dominate you when you get into action. A rush, some rapid heart beat and flow of confusing yet useful ideas. It gets easier to hit the flow state. And life starts giving vibes of good productivity and creativity at once.

You can join me by making a commitment right now, to start journaling Or start fitness challenge. And you will find similar pump / motivation and hope.

3 — How action relates to Time Management ?

With open eyes you do not walk hasty. You can see the repercussions. Immediately ideas dominate you and you have the tinkering feel of contentment — you will not be willing to give up on it.

In a state of fear, your first response is to find time. Build energy around this bracket of your day. Wake up, eat breakfast, make tea or walk in the street — the time you selected for one thing in your resolution, occupies you.

You will become cautious of your actions around this time of day, when you put your goal into action. And you will start managing your life, unconsciously in the right way.

Time will increase. Spaces of boredom will come eating at you. Your talks will not have depth.

At the beginning, You will walk and not be able to live a fun life.

The beginning is hard. Because you feel aroused, addicted, dull and in a state of continuous fight — like you are sitting in a rehab center.

As you build control your sources of addictions take a quick turn. You start to take responsible decisions. And ultimately you start managing your days better.

What comes next?

Chart, mark, draw and foster a nice plan. You are now on the road to winning — why not win it the best.

Buy a 5 USD ticket to my meetup, to support me, at 9.techshek.io

Write a good plan that you can monetise the new action. It can take a day or a week. But do not get into another action, unless you have a foreseeable way of monetising it.

For me, it is making the subscription platform and market my meetups [ flyer attached ]. A website seems like a sound plan. But before getting into coding and distributing — I am sketching some mockups.

You can also pick the one niche you want to master. Get into action. Write a plan. And get growing.

Email me if you feel you need help. We will have a real time conversation and do something that is Fun, Exciting, Challenging and Not Easy to make it work! Go Ahead & click here.

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