Just Do It.

By
Antranik
– October 2, 2012Posted in: Health, Productivity, The Constant Awesome

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squan­der­ing an irre­place­able oppor­tu­nity. But when you use the moment prop­erly, fill­ing it with pur­pose and pro­duc­tiv­ity, it lives on for­ever. –Men­achem Mendel Schneerson

I just real­ized that I have to tackle blog posts with swift­ness. When an idea comes in for an inspi­ra­tion, I have to type it out right then and there on my phone or com­puter ASAP.

For exam­ple, if I watch a fas­ci­nat­ing video on YouTube, I have found that it’s a lot eas­ier to write out my ini­tial reac­tion to it imme­di­ately rather than doing it a cou­ple hours later, or worse, on another day.  My ini­tial reac­tion has thoughts and emo­tions asso­ci­ated with it that don’t seem to appear the sub­se­quent times.  I think it’s because we are con­stantly assim­i­lat­ing infor­ma­tion and mak­ing it a part of our foun­da­tion all the time.

I don’t have as much to say when I come back to a topic after that ini­tial infat­u­a­tion is over with.  The finesse of the arti­cle, the minute details that truly helped carry it into a fas­ci­na­tion could be missed out.  These are like fleet­ing moments of epipha­nies that are later for­got­ten because they were never jot­ted down.

But never mind the “epipha­nies” and “deep stuff.”  This con­cept of doing some­thing as it comes up could be applied to the most mun­dane things as well!  Like clean­ing your room!

For exam­ple… You know when you see the trash is full and you think “Ah, I should throw out the trash” but then you imme­di­ately do some­thing else?

NO! JUST THROW OUT THE TRASH RIGHT THEN AND THERE!

See a shirt on your chair that you think “I should fold that and put it away” but then you do some­thing else?

STOP RIGHT THERE.  Fold that shirt and put it away right then and there.

The point is, the moment some­thing comes up in your head, instead of imme­di­ately telling your­self “I’ll do that later” just take hold and do it right now!  That way you could clear one more thing from your mind and be super pro­duc­tive.  Besides, a clut­ter free room is a clut­ter free mind.  Whether this is in regards to clean­ing your room or jot­ting down that mil­lion dol­lar idea, JUST DO IT WHEN THE THOUGHT COMES UP!


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