Author: Jim Best

What unfinished dream, goal, or project is still waiting for you? To celebrate UnReluctant Day, get Reluctance: The Subtle Saboteur (Ebook or Audiobook) for $3.99 through June 30 and receive the bonus album No Precedent free. 👉 GET THE UNRELUCTANT DAY BUNDLE https://player.vimeo.com/video/1204580483?fe=ci&fl=sv&share=copy What Did You Quietly Quit? Recently, I recorded The NoCryZone episode built around the song I Quit Everything by Brazen Candor.  The central question was simple:What did you quit? Whenever I ask readers or listeners…

Reluctance RepellentMake Sure You Have Sample!  Imagine if you could buy a spray called Reluctance Repellent™.One quick spray before making a difficult phone call.Another before introducing yourself to someone new. A light mist before beginning that book, launching that business, asking for a raise, or finally taking the first step toward the life you’ve imagined. Wouldn’t it be wonderful? When I promoted Un-Reluctant Day, I joked that I needed people…

The Right Time May Never Arrive  Every day we delay, avoid, or put off what matters most.  Not because we don't know what to do—but because reluctance quietly gets in the way. Celebrate UnReluctant Day with Reluctance: The Subtle Saboteur: How to Get Going Again  Now available in eBook + AudioBook The Ten Things People Are Most Reluctant to Do During our 1st Annual UnReluctant Day, one of the things we realized is…

What Have You Already Decided Is Inevitable? As we move toward UnReluctant Day on June 30, we’ve been examining reluctance and the many forms it takes.  Often, reluctance isn’t caused by a lack of ability. It isn’t caused by a lack of opportunity. More often than we realize, reluctance is caused by expectation. We hesitate because we expect something unpleasant to happen. We expect criticism.We expect rejection.We expect embarrassment.We expect…

The Cure for Reluctance: Increase Your Taste and Tolerance for Mischief We live in an age that often assumes every problem must be traced to its deepest root before meaningful progress can occur.  Sometimes that’s true, and helpful.  But many problems are more responsive to practical workarounds than profound insight. I have found that true of reluctance.Most people think reluctance comes from fear. Sometimes it does.But I think there is…

At first glance, the photograph appears almost absurdly simple.A bright orange wall.Two small wall hooks.Nothing more.Yet the moment I saw it, I wondered: “What is it good for? What would you hang there?”I suppose someone could hang something on it. But then it occurred to me, people have different things to hang up. In fact, we all have “hangups”. Not the dramatic, life-defining kind psychologists write books about.The small ones.The…

Let’s Illuminate: The Hidden Link Between Reluctance and RegretMost people assume regret is caused by failure.It isn’t.Failure can certainly sting. We may regret a bad decision, a poor investment, a misguided relationship, or an opportunity that didn’t work out as planned. But failure often comes with something valuable attached to it: clarity.You know what happened.You tried.You learned.You discovered something about yourself and the world.Reluctance is different.Reluctance is the hesitation that…

Aspire. Be Less Reluctant. Come Upwards with Us™ For quite some time, I have ended many of my blogs with: Aspire.Come Upwards with Us™ Now, as we approach Un-Reluctant Day on June 30, I have inserted a new phrase between them: Aspire.Be Less Reluctant.Come Upwards with Us™ It may seem like a minor adjustment. Three simple lines. Just a few words. Yet I believe those three statements capture a valuable philosophy…

Note:  We will address more of the behaviors that are ultimately self-limiting (and harmful) in this week’s The No Cry Zone - Watch for it).   What's Really Holding You Back? We often tell ourselves we're waiting for the right time. But what if the thing standing between you and your next step isn't timing—it's reluctance? Discover the hidden patterns that keep people stuck and learn how to move forward with clarity…

Moving towards  UnReluctant Day, we’re getting more and deeper questions about reluctance.   This is because Reluctance is so common - and so deeply embedded in daily life - that most of it goes unnoticed. Worse still, much of it goes unaddressed. UnReluctant Day Starts with One Decision How much of your life is being shaped by reluctance? Reluctance: The Subtle Saboteur reveals the hidden ways hesitation, avoidance, and delay keep…