Stop Planning. Start Doing. And here's how
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Here’s an important reminder: you’ll never feel ready to start. But you’ve got to do it anyway. And the operative word there is “do.”
Just start.
This episode is the kick in the ass you need. Too often we get bogged down in the dreaming, the research, and the preparing - without the DOING. Feel me on this? It’s a common excuse that most of use…that we just need a little more planning… Wrong.
This is not to say that planning isn't necessary, just that it shouldn’t be the crutch that prevents you from executing. And for most it is. Let’s change that.
If you’ve ever felt stuck - or heck - you’re feeling stuck now, this episode is for you. We talk about the right balance between the planning and executing in a way that will get the results you want.
Take a quick listen, and then get back to work. :)
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:02.0 | If you're interested in hearing something that's up here that I'm noticing that I would like to share with you guys, then stick around. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm concerned because so many of us, we, and I'll include myself, and sometimes we dip into this, this perpetual cycle of planning |
| 0:24.6 | rather than doing. And I'm seeing it a lot in our community, I'm hearing about it, so I'm even |
| 0:29.6 | experiencing it. I want to remind us all, a reminder to me, but also to you that doing is what matters. Now, you know, I want to |
| 0:42.6 | explain, maybe I'll talk about a couple of points. One, I'm not suggesting that you do no |
| 0:50.0 | planning. And what I am suggesting is that you do way less planning because the planning is the thing |
| 1:00.8 | that can act as a crutch. It's motion but no progress. You are whiteboarding, you're watching |
| 1:08.1 | another TED Talk, so I'm not trying to disincentivize |
| 1:11.6 | you from engaging in content like this unless it's actually keeping you from doing the thing |
| 1:18.6 | that you want to do or that you need to do or that you're dreaming of rather than just planning |
| 1:23.1 | it. |
| 1:24.1 | So that's kind of the first thing. |
| 1:27.1 | The second thing that I wanted to share is that what's the ratio of sort of like strategy to doing? |
| 1:35.3 | And if you're not operating in this like 90% doing, 10% strategy world, you're doing it wrong. |
| 1:43.3 | You really need to be all about execution because great ideas, they don't matter. |
| 1:50.0 | Great ideas are a dime a dozen. |
| 1:53.0 | Ideas are cheap and abundant and mean nothing unless they're actualized. |
| 1:57.0 | And all of the planning, like you need to put things out in the world that people can see or feel or touch or |
| 2:03.6 | interact with because otherwise it's up here and things that are up here they're just not worth that much in the world of making and creating and trying to change and impact the world from that point of view. |
| 2:18.3 | So, you know, you need to be in that 90 to 10 ratio, 90% doing to 10% making. |
| 2:25.3 | Now, I think a fair question, this is maybe sort of the third of three points, it's a fair question like, well, if I'm just grinding, how do I know if I'm working on the right stuff or when I'm actually stuck as opposed to just not working hard enough or working on the wrong stuff? |
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