Denny Strecker's Blog

Your Two Selves

You make plans to do something important later in the day. As the time approaches, you begin to have a dialogue inside your head.

The dialogue is a conversation that is meant to talk you out of doing that important thing.  Sometimes you master the lazy voice inside your head…but sometimes it masters YOU.

You see, you have a planning self and a doing self. And, to be effective, those two halves must operate without interfering with each other.

Your "doing self" will keep you from spending time on planning. As you sit, pen and paper in hand, it will say, "Gee, shouldn’t you be up doing something instead of sitting here thinking?"

And, when your "planning self" actually manages to come up with a plan, your "doing self" will try to talk you out of your plan.

When you are planning, don’t do. When you are supposed to be doing…DO!

 

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