Think Less, Do More.

I have a lot of really smart friends, and lately I’ve found myself chatting with them, asking questions, showing them my ideas and plans, getting their advice.

They give me their ideas and I’m like OMG yes, love that!

I open Asana to add the things we talked about, and wouldn’t you believe it… that idea is already in there. 

So now... I’m trying to train my brain to think less. It sounds crazy, but I love to overanalyze, overplan, and then… under-do?

Sometimes I have to literally tell my brain to shut up because the time for thinking is over.

It’s go time. It’s do time. Pick one thing, get it done, move on to the next.

TBH I blame school. You get graded on how close you came to perfect. “Ooo, only 90%. Better luck next time, you missed a few things.”

But we should be teaching people how to be good enough in a limited timeframe, learn from it, and make the next version just a bit better.

Perfectionism is not a flex. (Recovering perfectionist here 😆)

There’s this space where overanalyzing keeps you stuck, trapped in planning mode, moving slow.

Sometimes you’re actually better off just doing more and thinking less.

Because when you think too much, weird things start to happen.

You get overly attached to an idea just because you spent so much time thinking about it.

You start believing that if you just think a little bit longer, you’ll somehow crack the code on the perfect plan to build the perfect business.

But it doesn’t work that way.

While you’re sitting there thinking about your one perfect idea, your competition is out there testing ten messy ones.

The most I’ve ever learned came from trying something, seeing what worked (or didn’t!), and then trying again. And again. And again.

Yeah, you’ll make mistakes. But if it makes your business better off in the long run… is it really a mistake? Nah.