{"id":16815,"date":"2020-08-29T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2020-08-30T03:02:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T10:02:07","slug":"my-7-magic-laws-of-done-how-to-finish-the-things-you-start-quickly-completely-and-with-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16815\/my-7-magic-laws-of-done-how-to-finish-the-things-you-start-quickly-completely-and-with-style\/","title":{"rendered":"My 7 magic laws of done: How to finish the things you start \u2013 quickly, completely and with\u00a0style."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Genius is fueled by midnight oil \u2013 by hours and hours of focused, solitary effort.\u00a0
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Photo by: Raffaele Camardella<\/a><\/p><\/div>There is a book of mine that I am going to bug you to read \u2013 Nine empathies.<\/em><\/a> Here\u2019s something funny about that book:<\/p>\n

I wrote it on a Saturday, six years ago today.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not very long, only about a 90-minute read, and I only wrote about two-thirds of the revised length of the book on that Saturday. But I wrote the whole book, start to finish, with subsequent revisions all being interstitial \u2013 additions between the lines. I wrote a book that I could have shipped on Saturday, and in fact I did ship it to Amazon\u2019s servers on Monday, long before I was all-the-way happy with it. I shipped successive revisions twice a day after that, until I called Thursday morning’s version the golden master. Then I said, “Hey look. I’m done!” \u2013 but in my mind I had been done since the day I started.<\/p>\n

What is it that I\u2019m telling you?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t work like you. Most of the people who read me are going to be Cs or Ss in the DISC system<\/a>. I\u2019m much too wordy for my fellow Ds \u2013 and I\u2019m only wordy because I see words as a currency, rather than as a distraction. Even so, I would much rather write a book than read one. I tend to work more outrageously even than other Ds, but my style of working is completely alien to Cs.<\/p>\n

I wrote in ten hours what a high-C would have agonized over for ten months \u2013 or ten years. Worse, I took off with almost no plan \u2013 twelve lines of notes \u2013 knowing that I was at least two full epiphanies short of a revelation. \u201cWelcome to Seat-Of-Our-Pants Airlines. If we can\u2019t get you there on time \u2013 you\u2019ll never live to tell about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

To say the truth, my kind of productivity annoys high-Cs, because it shouldn\u2019t be possible to do this much this well this quickly. They are equally alien to me, in that I can\u2019t fathom Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genius is fueled by midnight oil \u2013 by hours and hours of focused, solitary effort.\u00a0\u00a0Photo by: Raffaele CamardellaThere is a book of mine that I am going to bug you to read \u2013 Nine empathies. Here\u2019s something funny about that book: I wrote it on a Saturday, six years ago today. 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