My opening thought, "If I never start, I've just proved that I'm a better procrastinator than you are."
Where are we going to go? If I never start, neither one of us will ever know, because there is nothing to evaluate the essence of "better". Is there such thing as a procrastination award? I doubt it!
Why these ramblings and all this silliness? Do different information sources this morning. A YouTube video, an article on a publishing platform.
In the video, it was mentioned that Michael Jackson's regret in later years was that he had not spent more time practising. Really? At his level of personal achievement, this was his personal assessment?
In the article that I read, your rationalization of your "imposter syndrome", the world as you see it. However, the contradiction mentioned, the world from your point of perception, you view the world as through a "keyhole". You build an image of your self, your capability, your experience, all that you have become; and then you decide that you are not qualified. Not qualified, and therefore you never start.
You set imaginary milestones for yourself, goals that are unrealistic. Unrealistic because when you begin you need to make mistakes and learn by your experience. Therefore, you hone your skill and become. However, you are not, at the first step, that you wish to become. That takes practice, practice takes effort. The majority of people fail to engage because they effort in the beginning is so overwhelming that they never start. The first step is to start. As I heard in the video, if you plan on writing, it's not how much you do at the session. What is important is that you began the session, even if you only wrote a single line of text.
So instead of being the perfect procrastinator, certain that I am better at procrastination then you, simply because I have the tenacity to never start. Now that makes a lot of sense! So here we are on the second published article, to begin again. To begin again, with the hope and intent of taking small steps and letting the big picture manifest itself. You cannot micromanage the big picture, if you haven't started, if there is no created output, there is nothing to micromanage. Perfectionist justification of "imposter syndrome".
This is been the last few minutes of talking into my laptop, Dragon NaturallySpeaking doing the work. I'll just leave it like this, not running it through a grammar checker and content advisors such as ProWriting Aid. Because I would like this article to be just a simple flow, as though I were speaking to you sitting across the table from me. Thank you for reading, will catch you on the next one!
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