“Just do it.” — Nike
The most important part of work is …getting it done.
It seems obvious, but you just need to get it done.
And you have to let yourself get it done.
It’s a skill and a mindset.
The skill comes from practicing it, the mindset comes from intuition. We’ll come back to this later.
How do you not put it off?
Let’s keep it simple.
The best way to get something done, and this applies to basically anything, is to do the worst you could possibly do yet still gets the job done.
Perfection is the enemy of progress.
Think about that for a second.
So let’s take that principle and ask yourself.
What is the shittiest thing I can come up with that does what I need to do in Y amount of time where Y = time spend solely on work?
Something is better than nothing
And for Y amount time, what is the most amount of time I am willing to spend on it to do the shittiest I can possibly do?
So we are saying what’s the least I can do with the most amount of time.
