Everyday, we as students, face new challenges and new obstacles that we are expected to deal with. These challenges can be things such as having a lot of homework, balancing many things to get done in one day, figuring out what to write about, and many other random things. Often times, in these situations, I have noticed that not only myself, but many students waste much of the already limited time trying to figure out "the best way" of how to accomplish these challenges. Unfortunately, eight times out of 10, we just end up wasting time and thinking too hard.
We think too hard because we want these things to be the best. We want them to be our best job, our best work, our best anything.
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It is situations like these why I have started working on "the art of just doing." Just get all of your homework done, just balance the many things you have to get done in one day, just write about the first thing that comes to you, just do. This strategy entails a lot of acting and a lot of not thinking much; just letting ourselves do things that we essentially have done all of our lives.
Just do, you can edit later.
The more we just do, the more opportunities we have to do our best work. Also, the more we just do, the more we realize that there is no correct way to do our best work so we might as well not think about it and we might as well not waste more time. We have this natural ability to accept challenges and accomplish them.
Society tells each and everyone of us that there are certain "good" ways to accomplish challenges, there are certain rules we must follow to write the perfect blog, there are steps one through 10 we must follow in order to graduate college, etc. I believe it is in these rules and regulations where we start to think too much and we start to waste too much time and therefore we don't perform our "natural" best work.
Understand the rules and regulations, yes, however don't allow them to accomplish the goals for you. Don't get caught in trying to do things "certain" ways where you end up wasting too much time and you end up not doing the best you can do. There were many grammar rules I had to follow to complete this post, but I did not get caught in being perfect in my grammar. I sat down, I wrote about the first thing that came to my head, and I let my natural abilities take place. I saved a bunch of time, I wrote what I wanted to write, and I moved on so I can accept more challenges.
Just do, you can edit later.
