3 Reasons Why ‘done’ is better than ‘good’
Here’s why, finishing your work is more important than finishing it like a pro.
Have you ever had this great amazing idea that you are so excited to work on? You create the plan and timeline to execute it.
6 months pass.
And you have nothing to show up for.
In the hoard of doing your best work, you did no work.
I have been in this phase for a really long time. I used to overcommit a lot but after 6 months I would have nothing to show for. And I have also been through the guilt when the realisation kicks in.
I didn’t understand it at first, but there’s this fear of not putting out our best work that makes us procrastinate and hold us back.
No matter how much we deny it, we like it when someone appreciates our work. And if you like it when someone appreciates your work, you just can’t turn off the switch when someone doesn’t appreciate your work.
But finishing your work is more important than finishing it like a pro. Here’s why —
1. Confidence Boost
You don’t realise it, but you are a scaredy little cat. Every time you say you will do it later, you push what scares you away. If the idea is boring or useless, you wouldn’t think about it after a month.
But if the idea has some genuine weightage and is valuable to you and its still sitting idle even after a month, then the problem is with you.
Every time you take one step towards finishing your project, you get the dopamine boost of completion. And every time you don’t. Some sort of guilt piles up in the back of your mind. You don’t realise it at the moment. But the time comes when it kicks your ass.
And let me tell you, just finishing your tasks, no matter how badly you do it, gives you these tiny confidence boosts that set you up for life.
Often times you won’t even remember how the project or task went. But that confidence boost will stay with you and will compound over the years with every task you finish.
2. You Improve your Work
In the long run,
A writer who writes frequently will always win against a writer who writes on a whim.
A pianist who has been playing piano for 17 years will always win against the piano enthusiast who has started playing piano occasionally in the last 8 months.
A photographer who experiments a lot will always win against a photographer who has got a critical eye but doesn’t experiment.
You see, you want to create the best, build the best, and write the best. But you first have to learn from the best, put your skills to test and trust yourself that you will become the best with consistent effort.
You have to put in unimaginable trust in yourself to ship out even the worst of first-time drafts you write, create or build.
And let’s just stick to one thing. Let’s do our work properly and not others work as well.
Our work is to write, create and build. Their work is to criticize, admire, and ignore.
Don’t you dare take on other’s work. Alright?
3. You Trust Yourself
Would you trust the person who doesn’t do what they say will do?
No right.
If that person is your friend, you will always be sceptical of them.
Setting actionable goals for yourself is similar to making promises to yourself. Now as you said, you won’t trust the person who don’t keep their promises or doesn’t do what they said they will do.
Similarly, every time you don’t follow through with what you said you will do. You show disrespect to yourself and lose trust in yourself bit by bit.
And trusting yourself plays a major role in the big game where you have to take risks and conquer challenges.
How well do you think, you are gonna perform in the game of life where trusting yourself is one of the biggest unfair advantages you can have?
Put your fear in the backseat of your car, have unimaginable trust in yourself and throw out the garbage thoughts you have and get down to work.
Because that’s what I am gonna do now. See ya next time:)
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