If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook
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If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook
Since doing your best work requires really showing up for extended periods of time, it’s easy to displace it with other stuff. There’s always something to do that’s easier, more urgent, more understandable, less risky, or more likely to please others.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
Through talking to my supervisor, it became clear that my graveyard of projects was a product of self-handicapping . We avoid finishing projects because we can't stand the possibility that the finished product won't be as great or perfect as we envisioned it, which means we aren't as great as we think we are. Consider the violinist who intentionall... See more
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Perfectionism makes essential projects hard to start, self-doubt makes them hard to finish, and trying to do too much, too fast, makes it hard to sustain momentum.