Lunch - turkey and cheese bagel
Dinner - probably Chickfila
When doing becomes done
My last blog post was kind of forced. I ended up going back a couple times and editing it even after I posted it to Twitter. Even now I still feel that I didn't write exactly what I was trying to convey. But I knew I wanted to post something that day. I knew there was something I was trying to process and that's what came out.
Now that I've been consistently doing this blogging thing for a couple of months I'm learning more about writing and thought processing. It's challenging. Sometimes I'm in the zone and I can knock out like 4 blog posts in one sitting. And sometimes I'll go two weeks without being in the mood to write. I guess that's what the pros call "writers block."
One thing I've learned through this whole blogging thing is how the act of "doing" looks. I've always been a doer, but this blog has helped me document, contemplate and evaluate the action side of it all. Despite being prone to doing, I still find reasons and excuses to remain stagnant; to be lazy, honestly.
I'm not in the mood. Everything I write is just boring anyway. There's something good on TV. The only people who read this are Icelandic people trying to steal my identity... I can literally think of 100 reasons to not write a post.
But there is always one reason to write that trumps all of the reasons not to write. Ready for it? Drum roll please…
Because I can!
Any good doer knows that the reason we do stuff is because we can. Doer's like to maximize their potential. They also like to take advantage of opportunities. For me, writing a blog is a bit of both. It doesn't matter what I write, it only matters that it gets written; that I take advantage of my ability to make this thing happen. That's enough for me. Once one idea has been written and is posted, I get to cross it off the list and move on to the next idea. Just get it done.
Let me tell you a story.
Almost 4 years ago I was given a book called "The Next 5 Years." It was sort of a self-help guide to planning the next 5 years of your life. On page 4 it wanted me to write a mission statement for my life. Kidding me? A mission statement? "I'm in my mid twenties and clueless, how the heck am I supposed to write a mission statement when I can't even decide on what scented body wash I want?!" It took me almost 3 years to crack that book open again.
But when I finally did I had a pencil in hand, not a pen, and I just wrote some surface-level philosophical statement about purpose and stuffs. I figured I could always come back and change it if need be. Then I flipped the page…
“90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head.” - Jon Acuff
There is no better feeling than when doing becomes done. And sometimes you gotta suck it up and push on through the blah to get to the done. Because once you're done with page 4 you get to do page 5, and I promise you, page 5 was a really stinking good page.
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