There was a time in life when I was surrounded by people who were not executing and it was starting to rub off on me.
I needed to set a higher standard.
The standard for perfection had to be removed. Perfection was slowly killing us and causing us to miss key opportunities. The standard for how quickly things were getting done needed to be improved on.
We needed to focus on moving more projects toward being done.
During that time, I found myself encouraging myself through a series of statements called “The Done Manifesto.”
The 13 concepts of the Done Manifesto appears below.
The gist of it is to focus on getting done, and not getting distracted on all of the common things that distract people and steal their dreams from them and others.
The most sinister of those thieves is the worship of perfection. Making an idol of perfection will mess you up in so many ways.
Below are the 13 points of The Done Manifesto:
1.) There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2.) Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. ) There is no editing stage.
4.) Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5.) Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6.) The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7.) Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8.) Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9.) People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10.) Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11.) Destruction is a variant of done.
12.) If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13.) Done is the engine of more.
Dear Reader, I want to help move you toward done.
I have a 21 day challenge, intended to help you lay the foundation for launching a book. I have a series of other ways to help you get that done between now and the next Christmastime book market.
It starts with the 21-day challenge though. Each day, I’ll send you an email that can be responded to in an average of less than 5 minutes a day. It will be easy, it will be targeted, it will be quick, it will be fun, and it will be effective.
All you have to do is lend me an average of five minutes a day to send me the email that I ask you to send me, and I will help you lay that foundation. Among the goals is to help you build more of a habit of being done. Tap here to join in.
Tap here: https://realstevo.com/write-now-challenge
Allan Stevo