Or fear of what the blank page might render to you? Better to look at something that is a mess, doesn’t look right, or feels off, then nothing at all.
If everything around you is based upon the perfect conditions unfolding. It will never happen. Find a problem, build a solution, in the worst of conditions. Then you’ll know it can survive the worst of it and still be successful.
Plans only work if you can keep implementing them. If you’re constantly re-iterating them, always rebuilding them, disrupting them like they never existed… well then they aren’t plans. There just… what was written down today, for you to maybe consider looking at tomorrow but there is no need to follow or adhere to them.
When starting a new project it’s almost as though you need someone standing over your shoulder going – “Smaller”. And then you make things a bit smaller. And then they say – “Focus it down more” And then you focus your intent a bit more. And then they say – “Get rid of the extra and minimize it.” And then you take away all the bells and whistles. And then they say – “What’s left…
It doesn’t change, it’s still there, and it never goes away. It never expires. You can think you’re past it, that you never need to do it anymore, but you do, it was to get done. Your avoidance of it is what is holding you back from finishing it. The question you have to ask is whether you’re willing to continually hold yourself back from bigger things by not doing the grunt work that you…