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Finish Give Yourself the Gift of Done
Don’t wait until the squirrels come home.
I am not naturally good at data, and most of the time I hate it. But do you know what I hate even more? Perfection. I hate feeling lost because I don’t know which is the best way to go. I hate living in denial. And more than anything, I hate disaster. When we lived in Alpharetta, Georgia, a small bit of rot developed on the corner of our roof. I’d never owned a home before, so I didn’t really know what to do with that data. “Huh, look at that, a hole from our attic directly to the outside world. Neat.” Every time I mowed the backyard I would look up and see it getting larger. For months, I watched the progress as the corner of our house disintegrated. I had the data. There was a six-inch hole, but I didn’t do anything with it. I denied it would be a problem because I was afraid that if I really investigated it, we couldn’t afford to fix it. Fortunately, the hole fixed itself. Our house was like Wolverine and had self-healing properties. We bought that from Nationwide. Turns out they were on our side. Actually, what happened first was the ants. One day, we didn’t have any Actually, what happened first was the ants. One day, we didn’t have any ants. The next day, there were a hundred thousand living in the corner of our great room. Jenny was upset but the spiders sure weren’t. They immediately set up webs in the corner twenty feet above our couch. Now, in addition to the pulsating-ceiling ant colony, we had webs full of dead bodies. It started to look like an insect Burning Man up there, with different species of bugs showing up to set up camp around the ant buffet. I might have ignored the ants forever—denial is a powerful thing—but the squirrels were difficult to write off. A squirrel family decided to move into the attic. You’ll never sleep more peacefully than when you can hear a tree rat scurrying around right above your head in the attic, one with never-ending fangs. Did you know that? The reason squirrels chew on metal on your roof is that their teeth never stop growing. That’s not terrifying at all. What was a hundred-dollar hole turned into thousands of dollars of repair, especially after I tried to catch the squirrels and had a friend step through our bedroom ceiling. I pointed out to Jenny the convenience of being able to see what’s in our attic without evening leaving our bed, but she didn’t view the hole that way. She’s closed-minded like that. Don’t wait until the squirrels move in to listen to data. Data kills denial, which prevents disaster. Perfection will tell you that your data must be complicated. If you dare to gather some, it will have you tracking every ounce of water, second of time, and vowels used in the book you’re writing. Don’t. Our goal in this chapter is to get one to three points we can use. For what? To finish, which is what we’re about to do. Actions: 1. Write down one to three things you can track concerning your goal. 2. Review a goal from the past to see if you can learn anything. 3. Find your airplane. What’s the way you work best? 4. If you’re already in the middle of a goal, decide if you need to adjust your goal, timeline, or actions. |
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