1245: Breaking free from perfect inaction
If you've ever found yourself stuck, waiting for the perfect place to start or the perfect plan, this episode is for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers. And a very happy Monday to you. If you wanna learn how to get shit done without treating yourself like shit, this Thursday, I'm kicking off my 100 days of compassionate productivity and I would love for you to join us. I share a lot around here about how much I believe in containers, especially 100 day containers. And in this program, I'm really teaching and sharing with you an entire repeatable system to really get shit done with compassion, make significant progress on the things that you most want to do, and really end the 100 days feeling really fucking proud. You can find out more by heading to the therebelrousers.com/100days or clicking the link in the show notes. There are 2 versions to choose from, a DIY version and a live community round, and I think it'll be right up your street. And for today's episode, I really want to speak to and emphasize the importance of one of my 4 key tenets of compassionate productivity, which is imperfect action is so much better than perfect inaction.
There is often no right or correct way to start. Now this might not be true if you're performing surgery or you're an engineer. But for most projects, it is all too easy to get caught up in thinking that we have to start at the exact right place or we have to have the exact right tool or have done the exact amount of research. Those three things are gonna keep us really stuck. They're gonna keep us believing that there is one right way to do things. And most of all, they're gonna have you believing that you're not enough or you don't have enough or you don't know enough to begin with. And I call absolute fucking bullshit on that. You might not have the perfect or the ideal setup.
You might wish you knew a bit more and you might not feel ready, but that might just give you a creative edge that nobody else has. You're naturally gonna find different ways to do things, and you know so much already. You are not starting with a blank page. You have so many experiences, skills, pieces of inner wisdom, and knowledge to draw from. I have spent many, many hours, days, months, and years stuck in perfect inaction, and I would not recommend it to anybody. Life is too short. Sometimes we just have to say fuck it and start where we are. One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received is start before you're ready, and I really share that with you today.
So here's to taking imperfect action, knowing that perfect action doesn't even exist in the first place, And also, here's to rebelling against the idea that there's one way to do things and one way to live life, and doing things on our own damn terms. I'll see you tomorrow.
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