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Whatever you want to do, start now because anything else, at this moment, is just a way of postponing things. Start now!
Let’s say you want to build a website, start a podcast, or create a song.
The best thing to do is just start. Start now and you will adjust things on the way, from one creation to another, one website to another, one podcast episode to another, one song to another.
You just have to adjust and change things in the process.
Treat preparation as part of the process
I remember the conversation I had last year with a friend and he told me that he wanted to start a podcast. But he had all these ideas and he saw all of them as part of his podcast.
He was thinking about video recording everything, not just audio. He was thinking about many things.
“I have to have all these prepared before even filming anything,” is what my friend told me.
I was thinking that, if he treated preparation as part of the process of creating the podcast, he would have had the first 10, 20, or 50 episodes as part of that preparation. And, at the same time, he would have had episodes to share with others, which was very important. He would have had 50 episodes published and then, after the 50th episode, he could have said to himself “Now I feel ready to have the official start”.
When you do that, you integrate the preparation into the actual work and end up having things connected to your work that you can share with others. This will help you grow. It’s a different kind of feedback when you put things into practice and see what happens with your skills.
If you just think about what you should do, not much will change. Instead, there’s something real in doing something and having a result of that.
So, start now!
You don’t have to pressure yourself to make things perfect because that shouldn’t be the purpose of your first creations. They don’t have to be perfect.
Start now, in the present moment, without making excuses
As I said, you can set the first 50 episodes to be part of the preparation. They don’t have to be perfect at all.
But you can use these first 50 episodes to grow, from one episode to another. You’ll find how to improve your work because you are already doing something. You don’t just think about what you want to do.
When you want perfection, you chase an illusion. It’s an illusion that stops many people from doing what they want.
Nothing will ever be perfect. Nothing! When you say that something is perfect, the thing that you think about as being perfect, is perfect just through your subjective lenses. You have your own beliefs, thoughts, and ideas, and all these help you create a perfect image of the thing you want to do. But that image is only in your mind.
When it comes to the perfection you want to achieve, that perfection is just in your mind. Instead, stay connected to the process, in the present moment, here and now, and build the thing you want to build.
I see the same thing in personal development.
The website, the podcast, the song – all these are external things. But people have the same approach when they want to change something about themselves.
For example, let’s say you are overweight. Because of this, you don’t let yourself do certain things. Maybe you don’t let yourself go to the seaside and you tell yourself you’ll only do that after you’ve lost weight. You don’t want other people to see you without a t-shirt.
While it may make sense, it doesn’t make sense to postpone the things you want to do now because things may be the way you want them to be, somewhere in the future.
That’s how you postpone your happiness in the present moment and believe it’s a good way of living your life.
Instead, I encourage you to see things this way: Now I am who I am and I’ll adjust things in the process, but meanwhile I want to enjoy life.
With love and optimism,
David
