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The Ryan Leak Podcast · Yesterday · 11 min

Keep It Moving

Getting started takes bravery. Keeping going takes resilience. Life won’t always cooperate with your plans. Ideas flop. People disappoint you. Opportunities disappear. Doors close. And sometimes the hardest part isn’t what happened. It’s figuring out how to move forward after it happened. In this episode, Ryan talks about the difference between processing disappointment and parking in it, why you don’t always need closure to move forward, and what research on the “Progress Principle” teaches us about the surprising power of small wins. You don’t have to fix everything today. You don’t need a massive breakthrough. Sometimes you just need one conversation, one email, one workout, one page, or one next step. Whatever happened, it doesn’t get the final word. Keep it moving.

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Getting started takes bravery. Keeping going takes resilience.

Life won’t always cooperate with your plans. Ideas flop. People disappoint you. Opportunities disappear. Doors close. And sometimes the hardest part isn’t what happened. It’s figuring out how to move forward after it happened.

In this episode, Ryan talks about the difference between processing disappointment and parking in it, why you don’t always need closure to move forward, and what research on the “Progress Principle” teaches us about the surprising power of small wins.

You don’t have to fix everything today. You don’t need a massive breakthrough. Sometimes you just need one conversation, one email, one workout, one page, or one next step.

Whatever happened, it doesn’t get the final word.

Keep it moving.

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