BUILD THE DAMN THING
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Fear Hates Movement
Movement is the antidote to fear. When we keep ourselves in motion—physically, mentally, emotionally—we disrupt the paralyzing cycle that keeps us frozen in place. This powerful concept forms the foundation of what we believe: fear absolutely hates movement.
Consider the physical sensations of nervousness and excitement. The butterflies, the slight nausea, the heightened awareness—physiologically identical, yet we label them differently. That label determines whether we retreat or advance. By recognizing this truth, we gain the power to reframe our experiences and use these sensations as fuel rather than barriers.
The real enemy isn't fear but inaction. When we examine our lives honestly and find ourselves in the same place we were a year ago, we haven't merely stayed still—we've fallen behind as the world continues to evolve without us. Think about how rapidly technology advances or how quickly social consciousness shifts. Standing still is moving backward.
Our relationship with fear often stems from past experiences that taught us to avoid risk. We cling to memories of pain, financial setbacks, or childhood wounds. Like a car's design, our view of the past should remain small (the rearview mirror), while our vision for the future stays expansive (the windshield). Your story—with all its unique experiences and learnings—remains your greatest asset, but only when it propels you forward rather than anchors you in place.
Your environment profoundly impacts your ability to move beyond fear. The people surrounding you, the content you consume, even the place you call home—all shape your reality and either support growth or reinforce limitation. Television literally "tells a vision" and "programs" your thinking. Take inventory: Are you surrounding yourself with dreamers or complainers? Are you consuming content that expands possibilities or narrows them?
Breaking free requires courage because movement disrupts not just your fear but often the comfort of others who prefer you stay exactly where you are. The familiar pain often feels safer than unknown happiness. Yet by embracing movement—even small steps—you align with the joy, fulfillment, and continuous growth you were created to experience. Remember, when you're doing the damn thing, there will be growing pains, but they're simply evidence of your expansion.
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The truth is fear hates movement. That's one of our philosophies here at Do the Damn Thing is that fear hates movement. And the truth is that when you're in movement you are tricking your mind, you are distracting your mind from the fear that it's trying to feed on. You know, I've heard people say that fear is not the enemy, and I completely believe that it's the fear that actually is the motivator If you're too comfortable, if you feel at ease and you don't have a sense of nervousness or a sense of what I call excitement.
Speaker 1:What I call excitement because if you actually truly look at the feeling of nerves or the feeling of nerves and excitement are actually the same feeling. We just label them different. So if you think about when you're nervous, you get the butterflies in your stomach and you kind of feel nauseous. And there are times that you are excited about something and with that excitement you have the butterflies and sometimes you feel a little bit of like nauseousness inside. They're the same feelings but we choose to label them different things to help us categorize whether we're going to hold back or whether we're actually going to be moved forward in joy and excitement.
Speaker 1:Fear if you are not feeling a sense of that excitement, that nervousness, and you feel comfortable in where you are, then you're not growing. I remember my dad used to tell me if you're not growing, you're falling behind, because the world is constantly moving forward. Look at how we are in ai today. I mean that for that for sure. If you're not embracing technology, if you're not learning the new, the direction of where, like, ai is going, then you're falling behind. I used to laugh and tease my dad just my parents in general when we would talk about technology and they were like ah, you know, we used to do it like this and why you got this and this phone. You know, I don't know how to work this stupid thing he uses other words but I don't know how to work this stupid thing. And I would tell him. I said, dad, I said this is, this is where we're going. Like, you have to learn. You don't have to learn all of it, you don't have to use all of it, but you need need to be able to stay up to date with things, because the world is constantly changing. Thoughts and beliefs are changing as more knowledge is out there, people are making different moves. Fear is not your enemy. Inaction is actually your enemy. Inaction is actually your enemy.
Speaker 1:When you don't make any movement in your life, if you don't move towards your dreams, if you don't do the damn thing in the relationship, if you don't do the damn thing in your health, if you don't do the damn thing in your finances, if you don't do the damn thing in going through and getting stronger in your spirituality, whatever that may be, it's actually staying stuck and being in the same place. If you look at your life right now and you're in the same place that you were a year ago, then you have not grown in the last year. If you are part of a coaching program or you are working with a community and you are in the same place. If you've invested thousands of dollars, hundreds of dollars, twenty eight dollars, and your life is in the same place and you have not it given that program, that coach, that thing, the opportunity to grow, because you have been stuck in fear. When we're stuck in fear, it's because we're holding on to the past. We're holding on to the past, we're holding on to an experience, whether it caused us pain, it caused us financial loss, it may have caused us to lose some people in our life, but we get stuck in fear, and sometimes that fear is grounded way in our story in the past, from something that happened as a child, and so we don't take the risk, we don't go through and we don't give ourselves the opportunity to grow, to try version one to mess up, because we're holding on to the past, which means if we're holding on to the past, then you can't be present to the future of where you are right now. If you're holding on to who you used to be, then that means that you're not paying attention to where you are right now. And damn it. I know that you have done a lot of work in your life. I know that you have put a lot of effort, I know that you have made decisions that have pissed people off, and the truth is you should be making more of those. You should be taking bigger risks. Fear hates movement is not only a statement, but it's a way of us being.
Speaker 1:There are times when I sit back and either I'm writing content, or I have to write an email, or I'm writing a script for something that we're doing, and I sit back and I'm like the internet went out. It says no internet connection Shit. That's what happens. Kayla, do you have internet? Lower this so that I can see the band. We got full bars. Which one are you connected to? No, I know, never mind, I'll answer my own question. So stop, just stop. It's still recording. Yeah, it's still recording. Do you know where I left off? You said I don't know. The pair hates moving. I got it. I'll just pick up from here. You're going to have to edit.
Speaker 1:Fear hates movement is not just a statement. It's a way of being, it's the truth, it's the opportunity for you to nope. Fear hates movement is not just a statement. It's a way of being. It's a way of being, it's a way of showing up when you make movement. If you think about it like, there are times that I sit back sometimes and I'm maybe writing a script, or I'm writing some emails, or I am looking at our production, and my mind gets stuck in all of the details, all of the logistics, all of the self-talk that's coming, the good, the bad and the negative self-talk, and all of the chit-chat. I have this committee in my head and all of them want to give their ideas and their point of view all at the same time. And there are times that I feel stuck and I sit, sit back, and I have to shift where I am at the moment. I have to physically get up and move, move around, go for a walk. Here I do the damn thing. In our office and at the story agency, we're constantly going for walks and doing what we do walk and talks so that we can be in movement, so that our minds are free and we're not stuck in this hamster wheel the hamster wheel that a lot of times is in the past.
Speaker 1:I remember hearing this analogy. It was actually at a church service, of all places, where this pastor was teaching about. It was actually at a church service of all places, where this pastor was teaching about. He said if you ever look at your car, your windshield is wide, your windshield is big so that you can see the direction that you're going, but your rear view mirror is very small, so that you have a glimpse of what happened and where your past was. Because back there is where your lessons are. Back there is where your learnings are, your stories. That's where your stories are, the things that helped mold you and created you, and they're important. Your story is the number one thing that you have that nobody else has, nobody in your market, nobody in your life has your story. They don't have the experiences, they don't have the learnings, they don't have the moments that you made decisions of doing the damn thing when it made no sense. What combines us as a humanity, as a society, is that, although the experiences look different, our emotions of that are the same, and that's why, when we share our story, we share our truth. We still, even though somebody has never had our experience, they can still relate to that because you talk to the emotion. You share the emotion of the moment.
Speaker 1:The truth of my story is that for six and a half years I had created this habit of using alcohol and using drugs. I was on crystal meth. For six and a half years I lost my spirit. I lost my soul. I was in such this place of not loving myself, of not owning my truth, that I would numb myself through drinking, through drugs. I lived in LA and was in Hollywood, and so there was this nightlife and this perception of happiness that Hollywood brings to you. But the truth is I didn't love myself and I didn't own my truth. And because I didn't own my truth and I didn't like how I was showing up, I would drink, I would get high, I'd have sex, looking for love in all the wrong places Because I wasn't happy with me, I wasn't owning my truth, I wasn't showing up for me. It was actually going through and making movement that began to change things Movement in thinking, movement in physicality.
Speaker 1:One of the greatest things is that if you're not happy in where you are in life, look at your environment. Who are the people that you're around? What are the things that you're consuming? The books, the music, the television shows that you're consuming? The books, the music, the television shows. I rarely watch any TV shows anymore because it's such trash. I hate that we're feeding this moment of anger. I don't watch the news very often because I don't want to see the ugliness that's in there. And the more that people consume it, the more that they begin to live in that emotion of whatever they're watching.
Speaker 1:When you think about television, television is telling a vision, television, television. And when you turn on a television, you watch a channel that is channeling a message. And when you turn on and you watch that particular channel, whether it be a Fox News, cnn, tbt or TNT, whatever that channel is you begin to watch their programming and they begin to program your mind, they begin to program your beliefs. They begin to program you to believe what you're watching on the television. So they give you the vision you tune into the channel and then they begin to program you. I want you to right now take a inventory. What are you watching? What music are you listening to? What type of content do you watch on social media? Who are you listening to? Shit? Even as you listen to me, I'm sharing a message. I'm sharing a vision, because I see the vision of you doing the damn thing and living the life that you truly want. It's a choice. You have to make a clear decision what do you want in your life? And then you go through and you consume the content that actually gets you into the direction that you want.
Speaker 1:Fear hates movement because it stops you from being stuck. It gets you present. Fear doesn't want you to be in the moment. Fear doesn't want you to be in what's possible. Fear is actually a really great thing. Fear proves and is evidence that something is different or something is going to change In your life. Right now.
Speaker 1:I want you to take the inventory of where are you?
Speaker 1:What are you consuming?
Speaker 1:Who are the people that you're around? Are you around people that are dreamers? Are you around people that are doing the damn thing in their life? Are you sitting back with the people that are stuck, the people that haven't made any moves in their life? They're in the same job, complaining. Now, if you're in a job that you love and that's feeding your soul and your spirit, then yes, in other areas I'm sure that they've made movement. But if you're around people that are in the same job and you go to dinner with them and all they do is complain about how much they hate it and the people that they work with and they just can't wait till Friday comes around or that they get their paycheck and they can go out and they can go drink and they can numb themselves and forget about what they're doing, that's not the people that you want to be around. If you're trying to grow and make movement in your life, what city do you live? What town do you live in? Are they people that are holding you back, that don't understand that there's a whole world out there, don't understand that there's a whole world out there?
Speaker 1:I remember when I, when I grew up in LA and in junior high and high school I attended this small town up in Kern County and I remember when I first moved up there it was like there were people who had never even heard of like Los Angeles and maybe they've heard of it from like movies and things like that but they had no idea of what's possible out there, like they had never experienced Los Angeles. And to me it was great. It's like everything the movies were out there, the beach was out there, there's tall buildings, there's life and energy. And to them they only knew this small town of growing up in the beautiful mountains of Tehachapi and watching this gorgeous sunset and being on these apple orchards. And you know, they were used to the small town life, to be in a city, to see a different way of living, and it shocked me. Now, mind you, I had never seen so many cows on one property. I'd never seen so many other things like that. So this small town was a new experience for me as well.
Speaker 1:But when you look at your environment, does your environment and the place that you live and the places that you go, does it feed your soul? Does it keep you moving forward? Does it help you get to the things that you say you want to get to Making movement in your life is going to piss people off, because you're going to have people that just don't understand. They don't get it. Either they don't get it or they don't want to get it. Like they've been exposed to a new idea but they choose not to. They choose to stay stuck. They choose to stay here.
Speaker 1:Too often, we're comfortable in our discomfort that we'll choose to stay there versus stepping into something that's unknown and this unknown happiness or this unknown growth. I know what it's like to be pissed off. I know what it's like to be angry. I know what it's like to be hurt. I know what it's like to be cheated on. I know what it's like to be taken advantage of and yes, it sucks and yes it hurts, but shit, I know it. So I'm going to stay here versus actually looking at what's possible. On the other end, if I do this, you're telling me, if I go over here, I might find happiness. You're telling me that if I make the decision or I begin to tell my story and I clear out the people that are not in my life, you're telling me that I can be happier. What, what? It's a different story than what's over here, and so we sit here, we're like, nope, I'm gonna stay right here, versus giving yourself the opportunity to see something different, to live in something different. Fear wants us to be here.
Speaker 1:The truth is, fear is a way of protecting ourselves, because there's a possibility of getting hurt by doing something different, and our brain is wired so that we don't get hurt, so that we don't feel the pain. It's just like when we teach a kid don't touch the hot stove. It really only takes one or two times of touching the hot stove and you realize, ah, that's hot, and you don't do it again. Or, if you're like me, when you're cooking tortillas in an open flame, you do it real quick, you flip it real fast so that you don't burn yourself. Your brain is wired to help protect you and so it keeps you in that fear. It keeps you in this moment of don't do that because you're going to get hurt.
Speaker 1:And the truth is that when you're doing the damn thing, there are moments that you are going to get hurt.
Speaker 1:And the truth is that when you're doing the damn thing, there are moments that you are going to feel. You're going to feel growth, and we may label it as pain. Yeah, it's going to hurt. Yeah, there are going to be some people that we have to let go of. Yeah, there are going to be some relationships that we're to let go of. Yeah, there are going to be some relationships that we're going to need to end. Yes, it may require us to close a business that we've been building. Yes, it's going to require us to move into a different location, but by making that movement, you're going to get to the happiness, to the joy and to the peace of mind that you deserve, that I believe God created you, created me, created us all to experience. Stop making excuses, stop living in your past. Bring your past with you, but remember that the view and the rear view mirror is small, but your windshield to the future is so wide. And so, and do the damn thing, and remember fear hates movement.
