DOUGLAS CASTLE RANTS: Getting ANYTHING Done: Breaking Big Issues Down Into Little Components

GETTING ANYTHING DONE:

BREAKING BIG ISSUES DOWN INTO LITTLE COMPONENTS

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Your perspective (i.e., your "grand view" of the situation and your emotional response to it) of every important undertaking in your life leading toward your personal and professional success is either a deal-killer or a deal-maker. If your perspective is that a task is impossible, you will likely fail. When you are intimidated or paralyzed with anxiety and inertia over a project that is in your best interest to accomplish or complete, you probably will either avoid it entirely, or commence with a half-hearted effort, with the expectation of disappointment. While we must, of necessity look at every major project macroscopically at the start, we have to find a way to avoid being overwhelmed by its seeming distance from us and its immensity. There's a trick -- every organism is made of cells; every mountain is made of clods of earth; every grand building is made of individual blocks or bricks -- in brief, every big thing is comprised of smaller, less intimidating components. Every large task is really a series of incremental steps.

With the power of your mind, take every large structure and break in down into its bit-sized pieces. With the power of your mind, take every large project and break it down into a series of easily achievable steps or increments toward completion. When you combine the two approaches, you will subconsciously re-configure the "monster" into small components, each of which can be handled individually in a incremental step. With each step, you will feel progress. With each step you will be closer to finishing. With each step, your perceptual, tactical and strategic skills improve, and your efficiency in executing each of successive step increases. At some critical point in the process, you will closer to completion than to starting -- and at that point, the drive to complete the work will practically pull you, like a giant magnet, toward completion.

Anything which you may wish to achieve can be accomplished through this approach.

1. Get the big picture;


2. Steady yourself;


3. Look a the picture in pieces, in components, in cells or steps - break it down into a large number of smaller things...every large object or system is made of smaller objects or systems. Identify them, and choose the one you'd like to get to first;


4. Progress by increments -- occasionally look ahead at the goal, but remember to look back at what you have already accomplished, too;


5. Feel the rush of power, motivation and momentum which grows inside of you as you progress and the cumulative amount of accomplishment grows. Taste, smell and feel the victory as if you had already won.

We accomplish everything important in life by increments. when we are intimidated and rendered overwhelmed by a major task, or a mountainous pile of errands, the best thing to do is to break the monsterous thing into pieces, and do at least one of them. The results are incredible:

1. Your inertia is gone.


2. Your fear goes into retreat.


3. You experience a taste of the joy of progress and accomplishment.


4. You have reduced your burden by several kilos.


5. You now perceive what had seemed as impossible to indeed be increasingly possible.

We succeed in increments. Every path or task is comprised of increments. Assuredly, if you do each increment, the major task is chipped away until it has fully evaporated.

Even writing a "TO DO" list and crossing out the first item is a major step. And don't forget...when you write a list, it is as if you are pouring the burden and negativity out of your brain, and onto a piece of paper. Just like journaling, writing lists can be very therapeutic. Writing things down not only reinforces memory, but it takes away feelings of "Am I forgetting something?" and "Where do I start?"

In the words of folk singer James Taylor, let's "break our neuroses into doable doses."

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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