🌱 Do the Thing: Facts, Feelings, Future (Copy this template)

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes.

✅ Doing The Thing

Harvard grad Logan Kilpatrick runs an ai team at Google DeepMind and hosts the Around the Prompt podcast.

I love how he succinctly shares what he does and believes on his personal site:

But my favorite part is this line:

“Most of the things I am most proud of have come from just doing the thing.”

Same here. The stuff I’m most proud of didn’t come from planning or overthinking…

It came from just starting the thing.

📋 Definition of Done

The phrase “definition of done” comes from agile development and I keep coming back to it.

I first learned about it from Dan Martell’s book Buy Back Your Time (and he mentioned it again when I interviewed him).

The concept is simple (defining specifically what done looks like for your projects), but can be tricky to actually implement when busy.

But I recently found this blog post offering an easier way to use it using 3 “F”s:

• Facts: what/when/how you expect this to be done

• Feelings: how you want to feel when it’s done

• Future: what this enables you to do next

So for example:

Want peace of mind? Define done.

🤔 Done is a Decision

“Insecure overachievers can endlessly complicate any task to an infinite degree. … If you don’t know what done looks like, you cannot be done.”

— Greg McKeown

That line hit me.

The big idea here isn’t to do more. It’s really to do less and so we can just be.

Definition of done is just a tool to get there.

Salud,
Mitchell