Thinking ≠ doing (unfortunately)

Perfectionism doesn’t always look like working hard. Sometimes it looks like doing absolutely nothing.

You’re ever stared at a task, thought about it all day, planned it in your head 12 different ways... and still didn’t do it?

Not even because a task is hard, but because you’d get stuck in thinking about the task?

Thinking, planning, rethinking, thinking even more about the next step to take because you want to make sure it’s the right one.

And yeah sure sometimes you gotta actually think about stuff (ideation, hello)

But most of the time, all that over planning is just procrastination in a cuter outfit.

When I catch myself stuck like this, I literally ask myself this out loud:

Me to me: “What are the actual reasons you’re procrastinating this task?”

And actually try to answer. Not in a nutty productivity way, but honestly.

For me, this happens when I don’t exactly know what the “right” next step is…or there are a million options that could all be right.

As a social media manager, this happens to me when I’m doing something I’ve never done before, experimenting with new content, creating things totally from scratch (you know the drill).

And then you get that little voice in your head… “Just take a 5 minute break!”

But the answer is not taking a break in this situation!

The answer is: take action, queen

Likeeeeee let’s figure it out. Even taking the smallest possible action in the moment is going to help.

I know that’s giving David Goggins a little, but if you train yourself to run toward the unknowns, 9 times out of 10 everything ends up being way easier than you made it out to be in your head.

Nothing is ever perfect the first try. But also nothing is ever as hard as you think it’s going to be.

See you next week!!

Xoxo,

Bella Rose