149 - Everything Is A Work In Progress

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Once you start to appreciate that nothing is ever finished, you'll live a little easier.   Subscribe: ITUNES | ANDROID | STITCHER | RSS FEED   Music and links from this episode Mayr Hayastan/Dilijan feat. Flower Gear (VDCJ Mix part 1) by Diezel Tea I hate mashed potatoes by Pousse Mousse Drift Away (instrumental) by Pachyderm Line-by-line notes As designers We have a habit of being hyper critical It’s natural to look back at a thing you’ve made And think Well, that could have been better And maybe I could have tweaked that a bit It’s normal to think like this And once you accept one thing, it’s easier to deal with it too. Everything is a work in progress. Fast food This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess I’ve got something to admit to I’m the worst finisher in the world Now before you start giggling I mean I’m rubbish at finishing anything I’m an ideas person through and through I think of an idea, and I can see it all the way through to completion … In my mind I’m an amazing thinker And I’m amazing at getting excited about new ideas too And then I’m amazing at staying up until 3am to get started on it Because of the way I think, I always start with the names Then the branding In fact, I was doing this only last night until about 12.30am Way past my bed time on a school night Being able to start a million projects and finish none of them used to really annoy me I used to inwardly shout at myself Why can’t you finish anything? In fact, the only thing I’m good at finishing is 365 days challenges And some of them I’ve failed at too I used to think like this a lot, and it started to get me down I decided the only way to get out of it, was to take a break from producing so much stuff So a couple of years ago, I took a while off As you can probably guess, it didn’t work I was approaching this all wrong And then it clicked what was so wrong I never realised, everything is a work in progress And you should be looking at doing lots of little things, often I was looking at all the things I wanted to do All the ideas I had All the projects I wanted to complete I want to learn guitar I want to lift this much weight Run this far Do this thing or that I was always looking at the end goal And when you’re trying to do so much And when that end goal is so far away That kind of thinking just doesn’t work You have to learn to love the process If your desire is to learn the guitar Your goal shouldn’t be to learn the guitar It should be to turn up, 3 times a week, and play some guitar The goal isn’t the end goal, the goal IS the process Because by following the process, you automatically get the goal without even realising This kind of thinking isn’t revolutionary Learning to love the process is something that lots of people have known for years But just appreciating it in your life a little more And knowing everything is a work in progress Lets you live a little easier every day And you turn up, enjoying every single day And who doesn’t want that? MUSIC This was AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess Music featured in this episode was: Mayr Hayastan/Dilijan feat. Flower Gear (VDCJ Mix part 1) by Diezel Tea I hate mashed potatoes by Pousse Mousse Drift Away (instrumental) by Pachyderm For a line by line rundown of this episode go over to https://www.askadesigneranything.com/ep149 Find me on Twitter at @craigburgess I’m back tomorrow Support Ask a Designer Anything Ask a Designer Anything Website Twitter (@craigburgess) Ask a Designer Anything on Facebook Leave me a review on iTunes