JFDI: ‘No amount of scheming or plotting will ever replace just  ****ing doing it !’

Posted on by aristochicsupermum

I am totally an alpha female, so I LOVED when I first came across this quote. I don’t know who wrote it, but absolute credit to whoever did. I muthafudgin’ LOVE IT !!

It is possible to procrastinate on so many things professionally. I know, as an alpha female Mama-zonian I can also procrastinate, but I own this and know when I am doing it. So I have to ask myself why am I WAB’ing [Work Avoidance Behaviouring] a totally made-up grammatically incorrect term, which sums up the feeling.

Here’s how you can fix it the Aristo-Chic way:

  1. Look at why you are WAB’ing. Is it because the project is complicated? Then break it down into much smaller steps so you can just start ticking things off a list.

  2. Is it because it is dull ? Can you outsource it? If not, tear off the plaster and JFDI. You will feel better once it is done.

  3. Is there another way to do this? I was writing a book and I looked at the content I had planned out and then groaned at the thought of physically writing it out all down [even though I LOVE writing], then I realised, there is a voice recording chip in the laptop, so I could use that when my energy was deflating. Result !

  4. Are you scared to do it? Look at the worst-case situation, realise it is not that scary, then Just Fudgin’ Do It. [JFDI]

  5. Look at whether your inactivity affects other people. If it does, then that’s not acceptable to me, so I will JFDI. (A personal example of this is: my daughters HATE wasps. Let’s be clear, so do I and think the world would be a better place without them. [Not bees though, we LOVE and need bees.] So whenever we are at home, and the Frenchman isn’t there to help out, I know that their fear is greater than mine, so my Mama-zonian instincts come into full force. I have to sort out the situation to protect them, and I JFDI.)

Start today. Start somewhere. Take imperfect action. And JFDI ! Xx

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