I have a Skype call scheduled in 24 minutes. And I want to get this blog post done. (This one right here.) Crap…now it’s only 23 minutes away. I’ve been wracking my brain for the last 15 minutes trying to decide what to write about.
I have a bunch of thoughts, but they haven’t developed the way I need them to. I’d be writing stream of consciousness and I’m not entirely sure how I’d pull all the thoughts together into something tangible.
So what am I doing right now? I’m writing. Instead of overthinking it, I’m just doing it. That’s how I’m going to beat my deadline.
So often we spend way too much time in our own brains. We see the clock ticking down and think we’ll never be able to make it happen. It’s our fear of the deadline that keeps us from acting. So we procrastinate and move the deadline back. After all, a little deadline fudging never killed anyone.
But then we get to the end of our day and realize we’ve done absolutely nothing.
Normally I can do that. Normally I have a bunch of margin in my day. But I have to get stuff done today. So I’m pushing through the resistance by just doing something.
This is my encouragement to you: Stop fearing your deadlines. Stop fearing your to do list. Just start working. Fear takes far too much time and energy.
Now I have 20 minutes to spare until the call. I’ll edit this and enjoy the extra margin I created by simply doing something.
[Photo from Mopho.to]
