A much needed reminder ......

.... (especially for yours truly)

“Done is better than perfect.”

Sheryl Sandberg, 

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

The Done Manifesto on LifeHacks.com 

(a fun and helpful website, if you are curious.) 

below you will find 13 points to consider when working on a project .... 

• There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
• Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
• There is no editing stage.
• 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.
• Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
• The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
• Once you're done you can throw it away.
• Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
• People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
• Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
• Destruction is a variant of done.
• If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
• Done is the engine of more.
• 
  

from 

The Done Manifesto Lays Out 13 Ground Rules for Getting to Done

This is a concept that I am continually struggling with but one that is very important to remember!

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note to self: just do it!!!

Be decisive. 

A wrong decision is generally less 

disastrous than indecision. 

Bernhard Langer

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breathe, deeply, repeat ....

A friendly and needed reminder for us all!!

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As the holiday season approaches and the days are getting darker quicker, making it feel like time is just vanishing, it is very important to remember to breathe!!!

Stress and anxiety are truly unhealthy and can cause serious health issues, so don't get caught on the gerbil wheel. Take time for yourself, even if it is just a minute to sit quietly and breathe.

Quieting yourself is also a great way to approach a quiz, exam or paper.  This is also the time when trimesters are ending and midterms are common.  When it feels like the work load is piling up and you can't think, that is the best time to sit back, breathe deeply and let go.

From personal experience, I can attest to the myriad of negative results caused by stress.  Stress lowers your immune system, making you more vulnerable to germs and viruses (yuck!).

Stress can affect your thinking. Have you ever taken a timed quiz, and while you are timed you can't remember the answers only to have them all flow back into your brain once the clock had stopped?? 

Lastly, you are not at your best when stressed.  Just think about how when you are running late and getting stressed out, these are the times that you more often than not, will lose something or forget something?!? 

So for today, a friendly reminder to us ALL - 

take a moment (even when you feel like you don't have a moment to spare) take a moment to stop, to breathe, breathe deeply, to exhale, exhale fully and let go of stress (as much as possible). XX

love, mom

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