Are You a GSD Baddie?

Life Coaching Tip: Are you a GSD powerhouse who somehow still feels stuck? The very drive that makes you so capable, the list-making, the planning, the problem-solving, can actually work against you when the real obstacle is a mindset issue, not a strategy gap. No amount of refining your action plan will silence the fear your brain is trying to outrun. The good news is, once you recognize that pattern, you can shift from doing mode to believing mode, and that is where real, lasting progress begins.

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My client, Connie’s dad lovingly nicknamed her GSD.  That stands for “Get Shit Done,” and he wasn’t wrong.  Connie is a go-getter, a doer, and really, that’s true for most of the women I’ve coached over the years.

I’ll bet you can relate.

You make lists. You execute. When there is a problem, you find a solution and you move on. It is honestly one of your most powerful qualities, and I hope you proudly own that.

But here is what I have noticed after years of coaching accomplished women just like you: that same superpower can become the very thing that keeps you stuck.

Here’s what I mean.

My client Brooke is building a business she is genuinely excited about. Her next step is to network with investors, and just the thought of it makes her want to crawl out of her skin.

So, what does she do? She goes back to her action plan and decides it needs more detail, more structure, more something. She thinks, if she can just get the plan right, she will feel ready.

Here is the thing though. Brooke’s plan is already a good one. Her brain is just arguing with it because it feels hard.

Instead of addressing that, she keeps running back to strategy, which feels productive but is actually just a very sophisticated way of avoiding the thing that scares her.

I see this pattern constantly, and I say this with so much love because I have done it too.

When things get uncomfortable, our brains seek out safety and security. They want to go somewhere familiar. And for action takers, that place is strategy. More research, more planning, more steps.

It feels responsible, it feels smart, and it feels like progress. But when the real issue is a mindset problem, no amount of strategy is going to fix it.

Think about weight loss for a second. Most adults know the basics of how it works. It’s simple math, and definitely not a mystery.

But for many of us, it’s uncomfortable. So, we convince ourselves we just have not found the right plan yet. Or we might half-heartedly try one approach, abandon it, and go looking for a better strategy. Meanwhile the actual work, creating new beliefs that align with our goals, gets ignored.

The same thing can happen with your desires. 

If you’re feeling stuck, remember, that dream is in your heart for a reason.  You wouldn’t even have it on your mind if there wasn’t a part of you deep down that knows you are capable of achieving it.

What will help the most is a brain that believes your goals are possible and that you are the person who can bring them to fruition. That is the work, and it is different from planning and doing.

It requires you to slow down instead of speeding up, which feels completely counterintuitive when you are someone who is wired to GSD.

But here is what I know: you are not stuck because your plan is not good enough, or because you need more information. You are stuck because your brain has not caught up to your dream yet.

And that is actually great news, my friend, because that is something you can work on.

The next time you feel the pull to go back to your plan, to research one more thing, to add one more element before you feel ready, pause and get curious.

Instead of asking yourself what’s missing, try asking yourself this:

What do I need to believe to feel confident and grounded as I make this happen?

Your answer, my friend, is the beginning of everything.

xo Tracy