Don't think about it, Just do it!

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Whenever i look at my to-do list and choose a task, I always overthink about the task. (the risk, the will to do the task, the what-if situations, etc..)

And instead of doing the task, i tell myself to 'just do it later,' 'think more about it,' and other similar thoughts to that. a lot of time passed, and "I didn't do the task and gave myself a reason to skip it."

This has been happening multiple times in my life, and in the future, i think about it and regret that:
"I didn't do it. I should've done it. If i have done it before, i would be much better off now."

Even though this happened multiple times and i have regretted multiple times, I still haven't learned my lesson, and i still keep on making this bad habit of "thinking about it and not doing it in the end."

I've thought very deeply about this and made a decision.

"I should stop thinking about it and just f**king do it."

I started with this mindset, and my productivity ever since has increased a lot!

However, I still can't remove the habit of "thinking before doing" right now (I still keep on doing it now and then) but when it happens, i just scratch it off my thoughts and just do the task without thinking about, without caring about the risk and without thinking about the what-if situation.

What do you think about this? Please let me know.
 
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You should read Williams Thread about being 10x more productive.

For the thinking before doing part.. here's a metaphor:
Imagine you would like to do 30 sit-ups a day and you have the perfect plan.
But as you know yourself, you will probably procrastinate.
So the rule is to do at least 1 sit-up a day.

Imagine yourself taking the action and doing 1 sit-up... you will do more once you just started. It's all about psychology.
 
Always love these threads here and there I mean who in the world would have imagined there are other people that care about your success more than your family members lol
 
dont worry be happy! do best for yourself and never give up! whatever happens everything for better!
 
How can you do it when you don't even think about it. Thinking it is equally as important as doing it. Just get the balance . think and do
 
How can you do it when you don't even think about it. Thinking it is equally as important as doing it. Just get the balance . think and do

So true, but be aware to feel the difference in your thinking behaviour to procrastinating.
 
Thinking before doing is not bad otherwise you can make lots of mistakes
But probably you have to think about "how will I solve some problem", not about "will there be problems or not"
 
“A goal without a plan, is just a wish.”

It’s great to have a todo list... I use Trello to organize my todos grouped by the project I’m working on. I too would find myself looking at my list and trying to decide what to do next, which direction to go in, etc. You might be like me and find you work best when you don’t think and just do.

I end my day with writing down what I will work on tomorrow. This way I can just dive into my work and not lose time trying to decide and make decisions because the decision was already made.
 
"I should stop thinking about it and just f**king do it."
There's a Russian movie(I might post more details later), whenever one character starts to "think" and analyse, the other character pinches him hard and says something like: "No thinking, only doing"
 
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