more doing, less thinking
Jul. 10th, 2007 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dirtylibrarianYesterday I had a pouty moment when I felt like technogreek hadn't been keeping me up with some stuff going on in his life. But then I realized, that with so many other people I'm used to them saying they are going to do something, and then following that up with lots of discussion, reflection, planning, postponing, agonizing, or whatever it takes for them to get around to doing it. But with him, he says he is going to do something, and it gets without all the in-between steps. He just does it.
jillbertini shared in her journal the other day some advice an author gave her about getting going with writing that really stuck with me since I read it:
It seems to clear that you want to do this. And 'thinking' is often a way to find a way to avoid what must be done, in my opinion. A way to try to be rational. Wanting to write isn't rational. It's like love; sometimes you just have to commit.
It made me think about so many things I've been thinking about doing...exercises, yoga, writing, practicing my drums, house projects, etc...that I put a lot of energy into thinking about, and could completely be saving that energy for better things by just doing these things and not thinking about them at all. So this morning, I woke up early and immediately did the neck exercises my chiropractor assigned to me (but I rarely do), and did the A.M. Yoga workout I purchased the DVD for a few months ago but hadn't touched. My goal for the day is to get all the things rattling around in my head done, or do at least 15 minutes each of the things I feel I should be doing. As Mary Poppins says: Well begun is half done!
technogreek hadn't been keeping me up with some stuff going on in his life. But then I realized, that with so many other people I'm used to them saying they are going to do something, and then following that up with lots of discussion, reflection, planning, postponing, agonizing, or whatever it takes for them to get around to doing it. But with him, he says he is going to do something, and it gets without all the in-between steps. He just does it.jillbertini shared in her journal the other day some advice an author gave her about getting going with writing that really stuck with me since I read it:It seems to clear that you want to do this. And 'thinking' is often a way to find a way to avoid what must be done, in my opinion. A way to try to be rational. Wanting to write isn't rational. It's like love; sometimes you just have to commit.
It made me think about so many things I've been thinking about doing...exercises, yoga, writing, practicing my drums, house projects, etc...that I put a lot of energy into thinking about, and could completely be saving that energy for better things by just doing these things and not thinking about them at all. So this morning, I woke up early and immediately did the neck exercises my chiropractor assigned to me (but I rarely do), and did the A.M. Yoga workout I purchased the DVD for a few months ago but hadn't touched. My goal for the day is to get all the things rattling around in my head done, or do at least 15 minutes each of the things I feel I should be doing. As Mary Poppins says: Well begun is half done!
