I was talking to my boss today about ways to make it easier to deal with the overwhelming amount of back-projects and work we have.  He mentioned that while planning is necessary, it is not everything and that sometimes you just have to jump in and get a small piece of a project finished and then go on from there.  This is contrary to what we learned in school in systems analysis class, but I’ve seen firsthand that real life projects just don’t work that way always.  You can’t keep planning until everything is perfect because there’s always going to be changes along the way and if you spend all that time planning, nothing ever gets done.

The other day I had randomly downloaded a weekly podcast from a motivational speaker as well.  The podcast was centered around the same idea - we overplan and make things more complicated than they need to be.  This makes whatever we are trying to achieve into an unclimbable mountain and we stop and just look up at it, trying to figure out how to get all the way to the top. 

This morning it all just clicked in my head.  I need to stop over-thinking things and over-planning and just get out and do the things that will lead to where I want to be.  It doesn’t mean that I’m going to just go ahead and do things without planning or thinking about it, but no longer will I let that planning get in the way of actually going out and doing what I want.  I’ll plan a bit, take some steps and then if I have to, re-evaluate my path.

I had it all planned out that I was going to get in better shape, lose more weight and then sign up for Muai Thai / MMA classes.  But there’s nothing stopping me from signing up right now - it’s going to be a lot harder on my physically, but I’ve already improved my endurance a lot over the last three months so I know I can handle it.  I’ve wanted to do this for so long - years really, but I always told myself that I needed to be in better shape or I’d make a fool out of myself.

Well - fuck that.  I just called and setup a trial week at Kombat Arts.  Class is at 6.