Stop Hesitating

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This is Chris Albert, and I'm here to remind you of one thing. Someday, you're going to die. Now that's not some morbid statement or scary idea. It's solid fact. Your time here on this earth is limited.

And we need to be reminded of this as much as possible for one simple reason, to live your best life while you can. This is the Warrior Soul podcast.

What is going on, ladies and gentlemen? This is Chris Albert, and this is the Warrior Note Warrior Soul Podcast, and this is a Warrior Notes edition. This is gonna be a really quick one, and I just wanted to let you in on a book that I just read. I've been talking about it. It's called The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and it basically covers his life from the time of his childhood all the way up until the McKinley assassination when Theodore Roosevelt was vice president and he ascended to the presidency.

And it's one of the best books I've read over the past five years. And the reason why I really wanted to read it was because I consider Theodore Roosevelt to be one of the greatest presidents we've had in this country. And not just a great president, but a great man who went on to do so many amazing things within politics, but also within history. Was an avid historian, he was a naturalist where he would go out. He was one of the first people to go out and collect specimens.

He's one of the main reasons why New York has a museum of natural history. And he's just left such a footprint on this country and his trajectory. And I wanted to know exactly what it was about him that created this aura, the the the great man aura around him. And it was his level of confidence. Now I I the confidence is something that I've always struggled with.

I got a lot from the Marine Corps when after I joined, it it it really helped me in terms of leadership. It helped me in terms of, you know, developing my own presence. But from all the historical references, Theodore Roosevelt was somebody who really filled up the room when he walked into it. He was somebody that people paid attention to And that carried through with his dress, it carried through with his presence, it carried through with his horror, it carried through with his voice. And developing that kind of confidence doesn't come out of nowhere.

He did a lot of work on himself. He was somebody who was constantly taking care of his body, constantly pushing himself to the extremes, constantly trying to better himself. He was an avid reader. He had five different long reading sessions a day. He would read in between meetings, he would read in between speeches.

One of the things they put in the book was one of his schedules when he was campaigning for McKinley on the vice presidential ticket, and he literally had every minute of his day packed up. And I've talked about confidence before, but one of the things that you can't do is you can't sit around and hope that confidence is just going to come to you. You get confidence from going out and actually doing things, going out and actually doing difficult things. And again, we see that in the life of Theodore Roosevelt. He went out West when the West was still the frontier.

He became a rancher. He pushed himself to the extremes as far as hiking, as far as mountain climbing, as far as hunting went. And he never backed down from a fight even if he knew he was gonna get his ass kicked. And this is something we should all be striving for. You know, not of course, you need to plan.

You need to to make sure you're not stepping on land mines in life, right? But at the same time, you need to just go out there and you need to do stuff. If you're waiting on something, if you're waiting for the right moment, if you're waiting for that right position, that right timing, if you're hesitating, you'll probably be waiting forever. So here's the thing, guys. What I want you to do is I want you to think about something you've been waiting for.

Think think about something that you've been putting off for a long time. Think about something that you've always wanted to do, and then stop hesitating on it. Take the first action. Take the first step. It might be a small step, but at least you'll have done something in getting to where you want to be, get to where you wanna go, and accomplishing something that you wanted to accomplish with your life.

There's one lesson we should be learning from this COVID nineteen situation is that life is not forever. We're all going to die some someday. And with that, we have no reason to hesitate. We have no reason to hesitate on anything that we want to accomplish. Yes, you should still plan.

Yes, you should still educate yourself. But most of the education comes after you have started taking actions because you know this as well as I do. A good plan usually never survives the first shot. And if you're waiting, all you're doing is delaying the inevitable learning that you need to do once you're in action, right? And if you fail, if you fall flat on your face, what do you do?

You learn from it, you dust yourself off, you get back up and you try again. That's all I got for you guys this week. I hope this was helpful. Please let other people know that this podcast exists. Share these episodes out, Head over to iTunes.

Write us a written rating and review, and get out there and live your best lives while you can. This is Chris Albert with the Warrior Soul podcast, and I am out.