Fun & Famous

A personal blog? Writing a book? Screw procrastination and just do it!

Sorry for the word ‘screw’ in the title, but sometimes you have to lure people in with language that gets to the point. Anyway, I'm sure you also want to start your own blog. Or write a book. Or open a concept store. Or you want a webshop. Or you want to take a Spanish course. Or you want to learn to play the guitar. Or you want to start distilling your own gin and have your bottles on the bar at the coolest restaurants in Berlin. Or you want to join a local volunteer platform to help refugees. And if you don't want to do any of these things, then you're just a boring jerk.
Okay, where were we? Yes, with all those insanely brilliant yet eternally dormant ideas. Those ideas that, when you're drunk at the pub, suddenly make you shout: you know what, I don't care, I'm going to do it too. I'll start on Monday! Only you have to go to work on Monday first, so then you start working on the Great Plan on Monday evening.
But on Monday you have a offday, and by the evening you're pretty worn out from your workday (and from the weekend) and you just end up sitting on Netflix while simultaneously scrolling through Facebook and WhatsApping. Yes, do you find it strange that nothing comes of it then? Lazy bum that you are!
I'm telling you, it's time. It's time to stand up, to take matters into your own hands, to give your life a new impulse. Do you really think you'll be ‘more’ ready one day than you are now? That one day you won't have any fear of failure or negative thoughts anymore? Believe me, that day won't come. It is scary, and it's exciting and it's intense to do what you've wanted to do all this time, because you might have to give up other things for it, because it makes you vulnerable (what if it fails?!), because some important people in your environment might raise questions about your plan. At the same time, it gives you a lot of energy to do what your heart tells you. To work on something you fully believe in. You become a richer person from it, even if your idea ultimately turns out not to be as golden and grand as you thought. At least you tried!
And one more tip: don't make it so ‘big’ right away. You really don't have to quit your job or drop out of school immediately if you don't want to. You can also let things coexist. Sometimes that can – no matter how busy it makes your life – actually give you extra energy and inspiration, and maybe even make your current job or study more enjoyable. Let me put it another way. How many times have you not been jealous of people who say ‘screw it’, who really start on Monday? How would you feel about being the one for once who gives others something to look up to? Just because they say ‘screw it’? Just because they're going to do it?!