112. The Research Loop: Why More Information Is a Form of Stalling

About this episode

Holly Toscanini discusses the Research Loop and how it prevents capable women from making progress despite their busy efforts to gather information.

You’re reading, researching, saving articles — and still not moving. You don’t have a clarity problem. You have a pattern. Here’s how to break it. You’re not doing nothing. You’re very busy, actually. Reading about it. Listening to podcasts about it. Saving articles, watching videos, taking notes, joining the free webinar. You are gathering information. You are being thorough. And the thing itself — the actual move, the actual decision, the actual change — is exactly where it was six months ago. This is the Research Loop. And it’s one of the most sophisticated ways a capable woman can keep herself exactly where she is while feeling like she’s making progress. In this episode — week two of the W.A.I.T. Framework series Take the Free Unwaiting Audit: https://holly-toscanini-f50a.mykajabi.com/the-5-minute-midlife-confidence-quiz Holly Toscanini names the Research Loop precisely, explains why smart women are particularly susceptible to it, and teaches you how to apply two existing Unwaiting Method tools to break the pattern. Next week: Episode 113 — The Permission Problem: Why Your Desires Are Still on the Someday List. why am I not making progress, information hoarding, how to stop…

People in this episode

Host: Holly Toscanini

Topics covered

• Research Loop
• information hoarding
• midlife women
• personal growth
• procrastination
• decision making

Keywords

• why am I not making progress
• how to stop overthinking
• clarity vs avoidance
• midlife reinvention
• women over 40
• stop procrastinating
• how to start the thing

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Research Loop, W.A.I.T. Framework, Unwaiting Method

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