Stop thinking. Start doing.

On a recent Tim Ferriss podcast his guest David Whyte discussed how he had given himself parameters when it came to writing that were simply total nonsense. He noticed this when asked to write something with a very small word count in a very limited amount of time, time that he didn’t have.

Or so he had led himself to believe with the parameters he had himself unknowingly.

This was a revelation for me. I always tell myself things like ’I need at least one whole hour or else I won’t make enough progress on that project’ or ’I need one more cup of coffee to give me the energy to get this done once and for all’.

These are just self-imposed parameters with zero basis in reality. I can do work in less time, and I can do it without coffee too. And so can you.

All these parameters are just nonsense, and they sound eerily like Steven Pressfield’s so-called Resistance. Unnecessary things we tell ourselves that stop us from getting things done.

Where are you placing unnecessary parameters in your creative life? What could you do with that extra time and energy? It’s time to stop thinking and start doing.