It’s easy to over think plans—getting caught in a cycle of thinking instead of acting. Fears and doubts loom large because they are in the present, and any positive outcome is in some far off future.
In that spirit, a bit of inspiration from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (affiliate link):
We walk past ski shops into a restaurant where we see on the walls huge photographs of the route we will take up. And up and up, over one of the highest paved roads in the world. I feel some anxiety about this, which I realize is irrational and try to get rid of by talking about the road to the others. There’s no way to fall off. No danger to the motorcycle. Just a memory of places where you could throw a stone and it would drop thousands of feet before coming to rest and somehow associating that stone with the cycle and rider.
They finish their coffee and, after puttering around, get going.
The asphalt of the road is much wider and safer than it occurred in memory. On a cycle you have all sorts of extra room. John and Sylvia take the hairpin turns up ahead and then come back above us, facing us, and have smiles. Soon we take the turn and see their backs again. Then another turn for them and we meet them again, laughing. It’s so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened” -Mark Twain
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I’ve really experienced the same thing many times over. I’ll find I have some client project that is over due that I’ve been putting off because it is unknown, and it turns out to be a 15 minute fix.
Or I’ll have a bug I need to fix for my software or set up some thing to push forward a little more and I kind of dread it. But once I start it and just push into it, it never seems as hard as when I first thought about it.
I’ve really been enjoying your blog. Keep it coming.
Yeah, I’ve had the same experience, exactly. Plenty more coming, thanks for reading, and I’m glad you enjoy it 8)