“Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.”
- Jessie DaSilva
Ahhh…January. ’Tis the season of fresh starts, great intentions & grandiose plans…
99% of which are doomed to fail.
Not to be a Negative Nelly…but let’s face it, unless we bother to develop good habits that will take us where we want to go, day in and day out, willpower alone won’t get us very far.
Why?
Because we’re human. So let’s work with that.
Here’s a trick to try—perhaps in a few weeks from now, when the early January motivational rocket-fuel propelling your dreams starts to run low:
What to do when you don’t wanna…
“Rather than fighting it,” writes Jessie DaSilva in her uniquely potent book, The Witch’s Way to Wealth, “we become intentional with our time. Put your phone on airplane mode, set a timer for 25 minutes, and for the entire duration, try to get as much of the $h*tty task accomplished as possible. Perfection be damned!”
As I’ve written about in a previous blog, there is a time for meaningful Deep Work where quality very much does matter…and there is a time for Shallow Work—when getting the damn task DONE is often more important than doing it particularly well.
We all have crap tasks that have to get done…whether those tasks are necessary for running a household, getting our finances in order, or moving the needle forward on our dreams, when the urge to procrastinate arises—and it will—try making this a habit:
Put your phone on airplane mode, grab a timer, set it for 25 minutes…and get ’er done.
Or at least, get ’er started. Then repeat the habit again the next day.
It’s not rocket science. It’s magic: learn to prioritize action over perfection and you will be astounded at how much faster you start reaching the goals you set in early-January.
Happy New Year!
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