Be Seen Today, Especially If You're Not Ready

"You can have the best product in the world, but if you don't know how to sell it, it's a waste of time." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a huge problem.  I am a perfectionist.

I don't finish projects because they aren't perfect.  I am reluctant to start new projects because I know that it will be an endless amount of work that I won't ever be satisfied with. Therefore, completion of the work will never come.

That has to stop.

I've heard a great quote:

"Great art isn't completed--It's abandoned."

I feel like I need to pay more attention to that.

I think a huge lesson I have learned, but keep forgetting, is that I have to produce content. I have to produce relentless amounts of content.

Of all the supposed content that I should be releasing, none of it will be perfect.  Lots of it won't be great.  I have to accept that.

But the important thing is to keep dishing it out. Improvement comes with practice, hence why the content must be a non-stop outflow.

If somebody produces 10 things a week, and 2 of them are good, then TWO of them are good! That's a good thing.

It's better than not producing anything at all waiting for it to be perfect.

If you are waiting for "the perfect time" to lose weight, or begin something that you've been wanting to do for a while, that perfect time will never come.

If you want to produce youtube videos, but don't own a good enough camera, then use your sub par camera. Use your less than perfect cam, and get busy.

I'm Dirt!

"Nobody cares about your dirt. 'Who you are inside' is meaningless aside from what it produces for other people." - This article... http://bit.ly/12MXIDf

I feel like I've always kind of known this, but never quite understood it until very recently-- I am dirt!

I, me, Sajen believes that he has a lot of worth inside him, but he doesn't feel he has much to show for it.  I am nutritious rich dirt that has the ability to grow the largest redwood tree.

I know I can do it. I know I can grow that huge beautiful tree for all to see. I know I can grow that tree that surprises me when it grows.  But, I haven't done it yet. Not yet... not yet...

So far, I'm the only one who knows what I'm possibly capable of, but that's not good enough. The world doesn't care about potential too much. It cares about results and effect.  I'm the same way.  I know I have a lot of potential, but that doesn't matter or impress me if I don't do anything about it.

Nobody cares about the dirt--me included. We all care about what grows from it.

Dirt is highly absorbent. It sucks water from the surface, and holds nutrients. Lots and lots of nutrients.

Dirt is a consumer.

However, put some effort to plant a seed water it and nurture the plant, and the dirt becomes something more than a consumer. It becomes a producer.

The tree is the star. Not the dirt

Fact: lately, I've been consuming way way too much. Content, music, reading, movies, food... I'm consuming it all.

Even with things I WANT to produce, I'm consuming way more from OTHER PEOPLE'S creations.

Consuming is important, but currently my scale is tipped in the "consumer's" advantage. I need to give the "producer" side a lot more attention, but that takes work.

Humans only want something that gives them a benefit.  I need to provide the world with my "product" whatever that is. I'll feel accomplished having done it, and others will become the consumers of my efforts.  They will get something out of me! That ups my value.