[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/do-more\/time-2\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/do-more\/time-2\/","headline":"Do","name":"Do","description":"Just do it. You can do anything, but you can’t […]","datePublished":"2023-03-06","dateModified":"2023-03-01","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/#Person","name":"algorithmlife","url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Burnett"},"url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/do-more\/time-2\/","about":["Do More"],"wordCount":1764,"articleBody":"Just do it.You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.Do the work, but there is no point in doing the work, if you’re not going to use it.Walk the path.Eat the frog.Eat the elephant.Be the light.Re-active vs Pro-activeNot deciding is a decisionNever, ever quit.Decide – use the Jahari window – important \/ urgentThe only thing you can do is your best.Just because you’re doing a lot more, doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done.\u00a0 Don’t confuse movement with progress.Act as thought it was impossible to fail.\u00a0 But when you do fail, don’t take it personally.\u00a0 Learn, and continue to do. All of the inspiration, motivation, great thoughts and speeches are nothing without the action required to back them up.\u00a0 You can talk a big game.\u00a0 You can have grand plans.\u00a0 You can say whatever you want, but until you actually take action, and do something, nothing gets done.\u00a0 It’s that simple.\u00a0 People make all kinds of noise every day about this thing or that, this issue or that, this injustice or that, but until they get off their ass and do something about it, words are nothing but wind. When finally you do get around to doing something, spend your time doing something that moves you.\u00a0 You have to realize that you can do anything, but you can’t do everything.\u00a0 You only have so many hours in the day, days in the week, months in the year.\u00a0 You can’t be in two places at once, so you have to choose what you will do.\u00a0  You have to spend the time on the things that will make the most difference in lives you want to impact.\u00a0 Whether that’s your life, your family’s life, or your countries life, you have to decide.\u00a0\u00a0 What will you do? When you decide what work you are going to do, do the work, but make the result of your work useful. There is no point in doing the work if no one is going to use it.\u00a0 How many dreams have people dreamt, that when unfulfilled because they didn’t do the work?\u00a0 Or worse they did the work, and then they didn’t use it. When you are working towards a dream, follow it all the way through.\u00a0 What you will realize on your journey is there is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.\u00a0 You can look at a basketball star, and know that he or she spent 10 years shooting a thousand baskets a day.\u00a0 Or a marathoner running lap after lap around the track in a never-ending circle.\u00a0 You can know at an intellectual level that they got defeated a hundred times, lost championships, friends, and partners.\u00a0 They sacrificed their free time, their fun, and their high school years. They were up at 5AM, when everyone else was up to 3AM partying.\u00a0 You can know the challenges they have faced, but until you have been there, getting up at 5, shooting baskets all day and watching your friends with their partners having a great time.\u00a0 When you lose those games, and know down to your core that your best just wasn’t good enough.\u00a0 When even the next day after a loss, and you get up at 5AM again, wondering if what you are doing is the right thing at all in the lonely hours of the morning. It’s not until you walk the path, can you truly understand the challenges that lay on it.\u00a0 The accolades that come after, are not made in the moment, they are made in the years of heartache, sacrifice, and overcoming challenges in the dark.\u00a0 When no one was around to cheer. When you finally decide to do, you often won’t know where to start.\u00a0 My suggestion: eat the frog.\u00a0 Now that is a statement designed to be unappealing, because that’s exactly where you should start.\u00a0 Doing the one thing that you don’t want to do.\u00a0 The one thing you would procrastinate about. The one thing you are putting off.\u00a0 That is the thing you should start with first. If you start there, do that thing, it serves two purposes: 1. It shows you that if you’re committed to this thing you are doing, you’ll even do what you don’t want to do to get there, and 2. You were able to do that thing you didn’t want to do.\u00a0 By doing that, you take one step closer to your goal, and you have started building momentum that eventually will make you unstoppable. When you start on your journey of doing, it will seem like an impossible task.\u00a0 It will seem like you have a mountain to climb, an ocean to swim, or a dessert to cross.\u00a0 It will appear like you have to eat an elephant.\u00a0 So you simply have to resolve yourself onto that task.\u00a0 And how do you eat an elephant?\u00a0 One bite at a time.\u00a0 It will take a while, and there is going to be some tough going, but eventually, especially if you are hungry enough, you’ll get through it. Now you might be saying to yourself, I do stuff all the time.\u00a0 I get up, go to work, do what has to be done, and make what I make and am able to live the life I want to live.\u00a0 You are absolutely right, but ask yourself, are you being proactive, or are you being reactive?\u00a0 Are you living a life by design, where what you are doing today is moving you forward to your goals? By all those things you’re doing, you’re showing yourself that you are on the path to your most ideal future.\u00a0 If you aren’t doing those things for yourself, but you’re doing them for someone else, are you making your dreams come true, or someone else’s?\u00a0 If you aren’t on the right path right now, that’s OK.\u00a0 Everyone has to start from somewhere, so you might as well start where you are, and do what needs to be done to get on the path you want to be on.\u00a0 The way to do that is to be proactive, not reactive, on your journey.\u00a0 Just being there is often enough, but on the path to making your dreams come true, you have to do. One of the traps you have to avoid if at all possible is the trap of not deciding, because choosing not to decide is a decision.\u00a0 It is possible to float through life, to give into all the demands on you and your time, all the unfair things that have happened to you, and just go with the flow.\u00a0 To be passive, and just let come what may.\u00a0 If that’s what works for you, that is your choice, but I know you know deep down that that is a choice.\u00a0 By being passive, you are choosing to let someone else define your future. If you decide that only reacting to life is not for you, and that you choose to do something more, something greater, in your journey, then never, ever quit.\u00a0 You can change where you are going.\u00a0 You can re-evaluate your goals.\u00a0 You can become more than you thought possible, and what you think is possible from where you’re standing today, may change over time as the view from where you are tomorrow shows you what’s now possible. Your dreams of today, might be the realities of tomorrow.\u00a0 And the view is very different from that reality, and your new dreams may be beyond your wildest dreams of yesterday.\u00a0 But don’t give up on your dreams.\u00a0 Even if you never reach them, never achieve them, never have a chance of getting to where you want to go, never ever quit.\u00a0 You will inspire someone around you, someone in your circle to do greater things. By being that inspiration, you provide the opportunity for them to achieve their dreams.\u00a0 And that is something worth doing.\u00a0 While you may be tempted to quit, ask yourself a simple question: If it was impossible to fail, what would I do today to make that dream come true?\u00a0 And then just do that thing.\u00a0 Who knows, it might just be possible. Once you start on the path of doing, you will discover there are a lot of things to do, and it’s hard to choose what one thing, or the next thing, you should do to move you on your journey.\u00a0 There is a simple framework that I use called the Johari window, and all it does is bucket things into four buckets.\u00a0 When you are considering a task, ask yourself relative to your goal if this thing you’re going to do is:Important, or not important?\u00a0 Is it urgent, or not urgent? This creates one of four possible answers.\u00a0 That thing could be:important, and urgentimportant, but not urgentnot important, and urgentnot important, and not urgentNow take all of your tasks, and put them into one of these four buckets.\u00a0 When you’ve done that, let’s start with the most obvious of things: if it’s not important, don’t bother doing it. That can be a little jarring, and counter-intuitive.\u00a0 You’re probably saying to yourself ‘I’ve spent the time to think of these things, I can’t just discard them.’ but that’s exactly what you have to do.\u00a0 By definition, if it’s not important, it’s not important.\u00a0 Now given that approach, you may rethink a couple of things, and they may move up into the important category, but be careful about reclassification.\u00a0 It may not be worth the time. The next step is to focus on what’s important and urgent, but the goal is to move everything eventually into you spending the time on the important, and not urgent side of things.\u00a0 You want to be spending all your time there eventually.\u00a0  You certainly won’t start there, and the hardest things to avoid will be the not important, but urgent things.\u00a0 Those are the shiny objects that will be tempting and distracting, but if they aren’t contributing to your future, they are taking it away from you. So spend your time, invest your time, just spend it on the right things that will get you where you want to go.\u00a0 This way when you do, you will do wisely."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Do More","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/do-more\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Do","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/do-more\/time-2\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]