Posted by I know you read the title but I’ll ask again, what are you waiting for? Why not start that thing we both know you’ve been thinking about for a long time now?
You can pause and answer sincerely.
We can all relate to that perfectionistic perspective where there’s a proclivity that you project a mental checklist, and check everything on that list before you “actually” start. However, that is a form of mental procrastination. And we should avoid doing this.
On the other hand, I’d have said just “start.” But we also can’t leave “excellence” out of the equation because you can’t just start anything anyhow. Right?
So how do we strike a balance between the two?
Well, I always start with the bigger picture, the vision. I break that down into smaller goals, then into objectives, translate the objectives into tasks, and finally use my tasks to set up to-do lists. But I commit to executing each to-do with some high-quality standard as much as possible.
Resultantly, after some time, I observed that mistakes and shortcomings were ameliorated as I accomplished each task and there was growth!
And guess what? Simultaneously, those bits of high-quality standards I ensured in executing my to-do’s, had chained up to be EXCELLENCE. Yep.
And all I had to do was break everything into very small sequential “daily to-dos.”
This is what works for me. You can try it too.
You’ll be a step closer to the bigger picture, your vision. And even better, you’ll be doing it excellently.
So enough of the delay. What are you waiting for? Start now.
I wish you a fruitful weekend.
Bye,
James.