The Cult of Done Manifesto
Image by James Provost.
How FUCKING AWESOME is this? This is going to become my mantra, particularly if I’m doing something creative, and especially if it’s something I get twitchy and insecure and intimidated by it. The only thing that matters is the Cult of Done. It’s not perfect? Fuck it. It doesn’t matter, and it interferes with being Done. Everything really is a draft, so just get it Done.
2.) Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
YES! Where was this list during my grade school days? Do you know how many reports and projects I either didn’t finish or procrastinated on because it wasn’t perfect? Fuck perfect. Done.
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.
Do you know how many times this should have been stapled to my forehead so I wouldn’t freak out and bail on challenging activities? This list needs to be inscribed on my genetic code, as I’m 99% sure that any offspring I have down the road are going to be just as neurotic and obsessed with perfection as I am. Six year-olds shouldn’t have panic attacks over reports on dinosaurs.
8.) Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
This needs to be painted on the wall over my drawing table and etched on my camera. Maybe even tattooed on my arm.
10.) Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
Anytime I’m in school, this should be something I recite to myself daily. There have been so many times where I’ve made myself sick with worry over failure, and 99% of the time it was completely unnecessary. I still do it.
Okay, enough being excited about ideas. I’m off to get shit DONE.
Found via Brandon Stone.
