You Told Me Where You Are Stuck. Let Us Do Something About It.

Last week, I asked a simple question and thank you to everyone who responded.

Where in your life or work do you feel challenged right now, not because you do not care, but because things just are not clear?

The responses I received reminded me why this work matters so much.

Some of us are leading teams that are putting in real effort but not seeing real results. Some of us are in the middle of a career transition that feels uncertain. Some of us are carrying a vision for something better, a better team, a better business, a better version of ourselves, but we cannot quite figure out where to start.

Here is what I heard in almost every response: it is not a motivation problem. It is a clarity problem. For example, people are willing to act, but they just are not sure what the next step is. So, starting today, let us fix that.

From Listening to Getting It Done: The LID-to-GID Framework™ in Action

Years ago, I introduced the LID-WID-BID-RID-GID framework, which I call LID-to-GID.

Today I want to make it real for you, because a framework that stays in our head is just another idea. The framework we actually use changes everything.

Here is the full picture, and more importantly, here is how to use it today:

LID: Listen In Dialogue

I am not talking about passive listening. It is not waiting for your turn to talk. Listening In Dialogue means creating the conditions where understanding can actually come out, where your team member tells you what is really going on, where your client says what they actually need, and where you finally hear yourself clearly enough to know what you really want; where your next step leads.

This week's action, for this step: Before your next important conversation, ask yourself, am I listening to understand, or listening to respond or just listening for what I want to hear? Then choose differently going forward.

WID: Write It Down

This is the step most people skip, and it costs them the most. When we keep things in our heads, they circle. They spin. They grow. They get distorted. When we write them down, they become real, manageable, and clear.

Ideas written down become intentions. Intentions written down become plans.

This week's action for this step: After your next conversation or meeting, take five minutes to write down the three most important things that were said or decided. Not a formal document. Just three things on paper or on your phone. Watch what happens. Feel free to share them with others in a positive format.

BID: Break It Down

The reason most plans fail is not that they are bad plans. It is because the plan is not clear enough or too vague to start. Being overwhelmed does not come from having too much to do; it comes from trying to hold too much at once.

When you break a goal or challenge into its smallest honest steps, something shifts. It goes from feeling impossible to feeling like, "Here is what I need to do next." And "next" is something you can actually measure.

This week's action for this step: Take one thing you have been putting off and break it into three steps. Not ten. Just three. What is step one? That is where you need to start.

RID: Review Its Dependencies

This is the step that separates good execution from great execution. Before you move, ask: what needs to happen first? Who needs to be involved? What could block this if we do not address it now?

Most roadblocks are not surprises. They are things we knew about and chose to ignore or procrastinate on.

Reviewing dependencies is how we get ahead of problems before they become problems.

This week's action for this step: For your top priority this week, identify the one thing that, if it went wrong, could/would derail everything. Then decide right now how you will handle it.

GID: Get It Done

This is where it all comes together. Not perfection. Not the ideal moment. Not when everything is lined up exactly right. Just the next step, taken with intention, taken with accountability, taken now.

Progress does not require perfect conditions. It requires movement. Taking the first step.

This week's action for this step: Choose one thing, just one, from everything above and do it today. Not tomorrow. Today.

The Real Reason We Don't Start

Most of us already know what we need to do. The LID-to-GID process is not complicated. But even simple processes get stopped by one thing: uncertainty.

"What if I miss something?" "What if I get it wrong?" "What if it doesn't work?" “What if it is not what another person is thinking?”

That is F.E.A.R.: False Evidence About Reality™. And it creates a L.O.C.K., a Lack Of Controlled Knowledge™, that keeps us circling instead of moving. Reality is what is happening. Controlled knowledge is the truth we can confirm. When we ignore reality, we create confusion. When we rely on controlled knowledge, we operate from fact, not fiction, opinions, or rumor.

Your Stress Shield™ is what breaks that lock. Not by removing uncertainty, which is not possible, risks happen. But by building enough clarity, enough connection, and enough confidence, the uncertainty will no longer stop you.

We will go deeper into the Stress Shield next week. For now, just notice where you are holding yourself back, and ask yourself: Is this real, or is it a story I am telling myself?

🎙️ Join Me Live On Wednesday, June 24, for our next Podcast

Next week on the Achieving Unity Leadership System™ podcast, we continue our conversation on protecting the freedom we work so hard to build. You will not want to miss this episode asMarla Press shares how to “Protecting the Freedom We Work So Hard to Build.” Are you intentionally creating a life that gives you freedom, or are you sacrificing freedom for success? What choices today will help you build memories rather than regrets tomorrow? Bring your questions. 

If you missed last week's episode on “True Man Life Coaching” with Mike Van Pelt, you can view it on my YouTube channel: @MarkEntrekin.

On Thursday, June 25, 2026, this week’s podcast video with Tim Wade on the “Lion Hearted Men” will also be available on YouTube.

A Question to Carry Into Your Week

• Last week, I asked where you feel stuck.
• This week, the question goes one level deeper:

What is the one step, just one, that would start to make things clearer for you right now?

• You do not need the whole plan. You just need the first step. Write it down. That is LID-to-GID beginning, right now, for you.