"There is no precedent" and "I can't do it right now" are just assumptions. If you keep at it, you will definitely be able to do it.

• When you think about trying something new,

• or when you try to head toward a "goal outside your current reality" that seems impossible for you right now,

don't you hear voices in your head at times like that?

"It's impossible because I've never done it before,"
"I don't have the skills right now,"
"What if I fail..."

I want to quit my job and become independent,
I want to start a new hobby,
I want to live in a place I've always admired.

Even when you think "I want to be like this!," reasons why you can't do it keep popping up with "But..." at the same time, and in the end, you give up.

Even though I now run my own business and live happily doing what I want every day, until then, even if I wanted to do business,

"But I don't have the skills to earn money,"
"It's impossible because I don't have the money or time,"

those reasons why I couldn't do it were racing through my head.

I think most people end up self-denying at times like this.

But actually, having these kinds of negative thoughts is very natural.

This is because even if you consciously think "I want to take on the challenge!," our brains know that "maintaining the status quo" is the safest and easiest path.

Disliking change and looking for reasons why you can't do something is, so to speak, unconscious self-defense.

So, there is no need to blame yourself.

Everyone starts from a place where there is no precedent at first.

We tend to make negative judgments about things that have "no precedent," but humans originally start from a state where they can't do anything.

For example, when you practiced how to hold chopsticks.

You didn't have the confidence from the start that "I can use chopsticks perfectly!" nor did you have the skill naturally, did you?

You must have improved after failing repeatedly, dropping a lot of food and being corrected by your parents on how to hold them each time.

And this is the same for school studies and business skills you learn at work.

You are doing things that are truly "unprecedented" compared to your past self, and you are growing every day.

In other words, we have accumulated experience and acquired skills little by little by repeating actions.

Like the protagonist of an RPG, you start with nothing, but as you progress through the adventure, you acquire better equipment and stronger techniques.

In the same way, our growth also starts from zero.

Think from an "unprecedented future" rather than the past or the present

And when you wish to change your current situation or escape from a difficult situation, what many people tend to fall into is

judging the future of "how I want to be"
based on "past experience" or "current skills".

For example, in my case,

I would often give up on what I really wanted to do, thinking things like,

"I want to quit my unpleasant job and start a business, but I've never done business before, so maybe it's impossible."

"I'd really like to try earning over 1 million yen a month, but since I've never even earned 200,000 yen as a salaryman, I guess 200,000 is the best I can realistically hope for."

I used to give up on what I really wanted to do.

"Because I've never done it in the past, I can't do it."
"With my current skills, I can only do things to this extent."

With this mindset, your current situation will never change.

What is important is to set aside your past and current situation for a moment, and think by working backward from the future.

"What kind of person do you want to become in the future?"
"What kind of goal do you want to achieve?"

By thinking this way,

"I don't have the skills now, but I can acquire them from here on out."

—your way of thinking will shift to this.

By doing so, the mental hurdles will lower, and it will become easier to take that first step toward a challenge.

What matters is whether you want to do it or not.

No matter how low the psychological hurdles become, ultimately, it is you who decides whether to do it or not.

For example, when you get in a taxi, it's the same as not being able to go anywhere if you just tell the driver, "Please take me to my destination."

In the end, there is no other way but to decide for yourself what you want to do and take the first step yourself.

Mind coaching is the same,

"I want to do business because a famous entrepreneur says so."
"I want to do this because so-and-so says so."

It is not about that; what is important is what you want to do yourself.

You should use other people's words and information as a reference, but based on those,

"What do you want to become?"
"Where do you want to go?"

—you need to decide these things for yourself.

Your desire to "want to do something" is the driving force that moves everything.

Most things become possible if you keep doing them.

Finally, what I want to convey is "most things become possible if you keep doing them."

Of course, no one can do things perfectly from the start.

When I first started writing my blog, I thought, "A blog is impossible for me!" and it even took me two days just to upload a video to YouTube at first.

But before I knew it, I was able to write many blog posts, and I have now uploaded over 2,000 videos to YouTube.

Even the skills needed to start a business were completely foreign to me when I was a salaryman and I didn't understand them at all, but now I can understand them normally.

We live under the assumption that "we must not fail" and "we must do everything perfectly."

But just like learning to ride a bicycle, most things will naturally become possible if you keep doing them and make improvements along the way.

Therefore,

saying things like "I'll stop because there is no precedent" or "I can't do it right now"

is a huge waste when it comes to giving up on what you really want to do.

Besides, in the end, no matter what choice you make, you are the only one who can take responsibility for it.

That is exactly why I don't want you to give up if you really want to try something, and I hope you will keep at it even while going through trial and error.

When things that previously had "no precedent" become the norm, the number of things you can do increases, and life becomes more enjoyable.

Since you are reading this far, you are a wonderful person trying to change your current situation, so you can definitely change it!

I'm rooting for you!