Half ass it.

Hello friend—you’re receiving this email as a part of morning reading, a daily reflection on the parts of life worth living for that you signed up for sometime last year. I've got a laundry list of additions, designs updates, and website pieces I want to make, but ultimately, I just wanted to bring this back. Thank you for reading, and a very happy New Year. 

HALF-ASS IT.

Good morning, friend,The first step to full-assing something is to half-ass it. As far as I know, the best efforts of religion, science, and self-help authors for the last millennia or so have yet to get around this. You have to do the first half of the workout to get to the second half. You have to write page 1 to write page 2. And you gotta cook dinner before you can do the dishes (it really just doesn’t seem to work the other way around). But it seems like when it comes to most productivity related things, we channel our very best deadbeat-puritan-work-ethic-step dad and launch into an internal lecture about how if a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing right, or some other kind of nonsensical halfassery. When the truth of the matter is, every ‘job done right’ is built on the foundation of a thousand half-assed jobs done kind-of-but-not-really.Even the masters of every craft have left a trail of bodies behind them—the unfinished projects, half-baked ideas, the abandoned potential that had to be trimmed away to discover their true calling. And to abuse the analogy one more time, two halves make a whole. So if you half-ass something today, and half-ass it again tomorrow… Well, you get the picture. So whether today’s the day you finally complete the project—Or one of the foundational days that helps get you closer… This is your permission to half-ass it. Journal Prompt: what was the last project you feel you did really, really well front-to-back? What was it about that project that made it click?