Making stuff is messy 🖍There's some building work going on next door. They started on day one with some boundary lines loosely spray-painted over the grass and now three days later massive mounds of earth have been churned up, there's litter everywhere and it looks more like a building got destroyed rather than the other way round. It's a mess. Not unlike THIS guy am i riiiiiiight 👁️👄👁️ Lately, things have been feeling pretty scary 👻I'm building a product. I've never done that before. The product is a course sharing the last project I worked on and what I learned. I'd never done that sort of project before. I'm making the course with my friend who I did the project with. I've never made stuff with friends before. I'm building a whole business with my friends. First time doing that too. I'm worried I'm not going to be a good business partner. I'm worried the course is going to be a mess and I'm going to let everyone down. I'm worried the project isn't good enough. I'm worried I don't have what it takes. I'm worried I'm going to crash and burn. But here's the thing 📌I might let my friends down. I might make a shit product. I might fail. In fact, I will fail, constantly, whatever I do. This course is going to be silly and full of holes and all over the place. And so am I. I am going to have blindspots and miss important stuff. I'm going to put my foot in my mouth. I'm going to be running around like a headless chicken without the slightest clue what I'm doing. There's going to be litter everywhere! I am going to make a mess. Say yes to the mess 💩Maybe making a mess is just part of the job. It's a part of trying something new. It's what happens when you explore the unknown. I want to explore, to try, to give it a go, to be messy, to be free to fail. When I try to hide from what scares me, I end up stuck in a cycle of churn and burn. When I say yes to the mess, I’m free to learn. If I crash, so be it, I'll crash and learn.
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