I once read “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly” and that flipped my world upside down.

Sure, sometimes you want to out in the extra work for “good” or even “great”, but sometimes “it is” it’s totally fine. Sometimes I cook a nice dinner, sometimes a plate of pasta with canned sauce is fine. Sometimes just doing something is totally okay, however it comes out.

Today I did half of my dishes (my water heater died months ago and I don’t have the energy to install the new one thats been sitting in the basement for months… so no dishwasher for me) and just left the other half sitting in the sink. Will I finish them today? Who knows!?

But I got half of them done!

For years I only brushed my teeth cause every time I would say “well I just brush them a little bit that’s gotta be a lot better than not at all”. But once you stand there brushing, it’s not too bad so you do it properly. It never stopped working.

A word to the wise from your elders, there will come a time when you reach your body’s limits. Once you pass that time, getting out of burnout is both harder to do and easier to fall back into. This kind of burnout has rendered me useless and the world has thrust me back into fight or flight on top of it. I have little hope of fixing this so I’m learning to live with it. You guys don’t have to, learn how to get out of burnout and learn how to stay out of fight or flight before experience traps you there.

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So this can help me just start doing a thing, but if I don’t sit down and fix shit I’ll end up feeling unmotivated until I get sloppy enough to stop all together. If I haven’t meticulously optimized the task for myself I’m gonna stop seeing it as my problem.