It’s time to get out of your own head. Stop thinking and planning and start doing. Start doing something that you have not spent any time planning. No matter how uncomfortable, do something without preparation.
I’m an obsessive planner. I plan so much that I fall in love with my plans and begin to think the work is completed. Even if I haven’t started!
I fall into the trap of imagining how awesome the work will be when it’s finished. Then I never start doing the work at all!
Too much planning and thought takes the place of action as you spend more time living in a fantasy world rather than doing the simple work in front of you.
The planning will get so complex that you convince yourself the simple work to be done couldn’t possibly be the right thing to do. All because it looks too simple and too easy.
Instead, you never start. You never get the important stuff done. You dream about more plans and more to do lists.
You become paralyzed as the fantasy world and a delusion of grandeur. Your huge plans replace the actual world around you.
The work doesn’t start because you’ve lost the distinction between your grand plans and the real world. The abstract has started to replace the physical. Then laziness, indolence, and procrastination bite you like a viper.
Creative-minded people are especially susceptible to this condition as they have imaginations that run wild.
These imaginations include grand plans and dreams of how successful you will be, but they also build false expectations and horrors that the whole world watches every little move you make.
When you believe this lie you become afraid to make a mistake or look stupid. When you become afraid to look stupid you are further paralyzed from success.
We must get out of our own head. Live in the real world. Put away the abstract. Be courageous enough to live with what is real and take part in what happens around you.
No more grand plans. No more illusions of the crowd watching every move. Simple, honest, humble work will win the day.