Choosing people to emulate

Sometimes I pick a person that I consider my "organizing idol" I think, "if I could just think like they did, I could change my life." Today I heard someone discussing how she was moving her husband's medical office from one place to another. She sounded so purposefully busy that I wished I was her. I feel like there's something about me that does not allow me to go out and do what I am supposed to do. Sometimes I feel like I lack the skills to do things I need to do. I wonder, why do I feel so helpless when others can accomplish so much? Is it simply not really wanting to do things, inertia in getting started, or really the inability, that stops me? I have touched on all these topics before. I have been reading books (two that I recently go from the library) about mind management/time management. Although they weren't much help to me, they both touched on the idea that changing your mind is a habit like others and it's more comfortable for us to do what we have always done. I know that so well. There is a need for me to get out of my rut but a strong resistance. When someone asks me to do something, I often dig in my heels. I want to change that way of thinking.