How to just get started.
What would you like to do, but find you are procratinating on? Ask yourself, “Why am I procrastinating?” Could it be this is something new and you just aren’t sure where to start? Maybe figuring just exactly what it is you want to do is the biggest problem though. I have this problem all of the time. I end up procrastinating and then look back later and see what I haven’t accomplished. But I have a three-point solution, and you can benefit from it right now.
First, let’s look at this blog as an example. I downloaded the Wordpress software nearly two months ago. I managed to pull my old and neglected TypePad blog and get Wordpress installed in one day. This is just the second post though. Among many other activities, I have anguished over what focus to give it. I decided on a focus and then I made of list of article ideas. Then I decided I don’t like the default Kubrick theme. I’ve wasted several hours browsing themes on the Wordpress site, the web, CSS Zen Garden, and I’ve finally decided what I want to do. Now I just have to start doing it. Bottom line: my blog still is just barely started. But if I had just started posting ( as I am doing now ) I would be that much further ahead. And there is the answer in a nutshell.
The solution: Nike says it best: Just do it!
- Just start. If you find you started in the wrong place or got ahead of yourself, then save your work as best you can and back up as far as necessary, then re-start there. At least now you have some momentum.
- Be persistant. Nobody says your project has to be perfect at the very beginning. ( Isn’t that what the term ‘beta’ is for?). Leverage your momentum, and keep making those incremental improvements on a consistent basis. Eventually you will get where you want to go.
- Let go of any frustration. You can probably think of many successful projects where you started knowing nothing. Maybe you did get frustrated along the way. It happens; especially if you find you started in the wrong place. I bet you had to let go of, or move past any frustration to finish though, didn’t you?
This blog is my project. There is no boss standing over me with whip, but I look back and see if I keep going at the previous rate, it will just become another regret. So I am posting, everything else can come later. Depending on when you read this you may or may not see the default Kubrik Theme. I must assume you aren’t here just for the pretty pictures and the atmosphere ( or maybe you are 
), you’re here for the content. Either way, thanks for stopping by.
