Courage to eliminate

“Greatness takes guts. And often, it’s the courage to eliminate the things you can do fairly well so you have the capacity to do one thing exceptionally well. Have the courage to take more off your plate." – James Clear

It’s easy productivity advice to say you do eliminate tasks, delegate more, or automate work. But it’s hard to acknowledge the human psychological element in it - that we all enjoy doing things we are good at, and letting go of that is the hard part of eliminating tasks.

Been there, done that, still struggle with it:

Consistency and intensity. Some tasks need consistency, some need intensity. Like finishing up and launching my SaaS needs some intensity. But I’m comfortable with my consistency that I struggle to muster up the motivation (but also bandwidth and time with my day) to do it.

Like how I love coding and building, but still struggle to do marketing. I’d naturally reach for the code editor any day, but ask me to even write a self-promotional tweet, there’s 10x more hesitation and consideration before I actually post it.

I’m comfortable being my introvert, drama-avoidant, quiet self, so being loud, extroverted and almost even somewhat controversial on social media is something to don’t enjoy doing, even though it brings in the impressions.

All these take courage, and then continuous commitment, to drop.

Needs practice practice practice.

#notetoself