How to Start Taking Action and Overcome Self-Sabotage (3 Key Actions)

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekDecisions, action, and self-sabotageSelf-sabotageSelf-sabotageFreedomMeditation practice and technique

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00“I understand everything, but I do not act”
• 00:58The ego structure of “I have understood everything”
• 04:00The reason for inaction
• 05:30Action 1: How to start acting
• 07:15Action 2: How to start acting
• 08:47Action 3: How to start acting
• 10:44Allowing for possibilities and freedom from the outcome

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 04:16

  Someone says, “I want to find a new job, but I am not doing it.” You need to explore whether they truly want to work for another company or start their own business, or whether they do not need that and want to remain an employee.

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• 04:36

  Or someone says, “I understand why I do not want to start my own business: first I need to save up capital.” Do they truly understand that they need to accumulate capital to start a business, or is there some other reason behind it?

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• 06:56

  “Or exactly why your child was born at a particular time?” Usually that raises many questions.

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• 07:05

  In life, a person does a great many things without real, deep analysis, real investigation, or perception of the subject.

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• 07:38

  Or tell yourself, as in my situation with English meditations, “I am not doing it for reasons I do not know.”

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• 08:45

  There is an important point: some things you do not do because you do not need to experience them or go through them.

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• 09:03

  Your system of soul and spirit blocks certain actions because you simply do not need to experience them.

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• 09:14

  But look: you can fall into the ego's trap here and explain everything by saying, “I am not doing this because that is what I need for my karmic experience.”

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• 11:48

  It lets you move forward very calmly and truly discover, on the one hand, why you are not doing something, and on the other, take the right next step.

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• 13:47

  When there is no trauma, no blockage, and you have complete freedom—absolute freedom—over whether the outcome is minus a thousand or plus a thousand, when you relate to both in the same way.

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