In high school, I faced one of my final assignments. It was a persuasive speech for my communications class. The thing about said assignment was it pretty much decided whether I would graduate or not. I needed to pass communications and the only way to pass was to do well on this speech. Admittedly I slacked off considerably in high school, mainly because I simply didn’t like school all that much. If I could go back I definitely would’ve applied myself a lot more than I did.
Anyways I digress, I had to give a persuasive speech to graduate. You’d think I would’ve taken this seriously. You’d expect me to put the time in like a normal person would. Alas, Joe Greenberg isn’t a normal person. I instead put off working on it until the last minute. The topic of my speech was procrastination and my smart ass wrote my speech on writing my speech. I spoke about how I kept delaying it. I didn’t actually write it until hours before the class where I had to present.
Half assed? Absolutely. Clever? I like to think so. The thing is I still haven’t grown out of procrastinating. I come up with what I think are good ideas. I’ve got the conception part down…what needs work is…um…well…doing the actual work. I’m actually pretty self aware in that respect. Even though I’m aware of the issue I still struggle to fix the issue. The problem is I come up with this big elaborate project but want it to be perfect. That’s where the struggle lies, getting over the need for whatever I’m working on to be perfect.
Settling for great or good, foregoing perfect…in a sense, done being better than good. I did a decent run of that with the 12 Days of Christmas Movies campaign I ran in December. None of those videos were perfect, but they were all done. Some were better than others. I’m quite proud of some. I don’t even remember making others.
The point is, I actually had fun making a lot of those, and that’s the whole point. By splitting the work into 12 separate videos I lessened the workload considerably making the entire project easier to achieve. I realized that splitting work can make projects more manageable. I’ve also wanted to start a Top 23 Jim Carrey Movies campaign for years now. I’ve wanted to do a Top 10 Comedy Wrestlers list for a couple years. I’ve wanted to do a watch along with Sons of Anarchy for quite a while too.
The plan for the Top 23 Jim Carrey Movies was always to release one entry each month. This was supposed to occur on the 23rd and continue for 23 months. The problem is…er was rather, I wanted it to be perfect thus never got around to doing it. The solution I just came up with this morning. I won’t focus on creating one perfect video about a movie in a month. Instead, I will announce that month’s entry on the 23rd. Then, I will study the movie for the next month.
I will be employing the same strategy for the Sons of Anarchy watch along and the Top 10 Comedy Wrestlers. Rather than one perfect video, I will create all kinds of content over the course of a month. This actually sounds like fun. Like something I want to do. Something that’s doable. It also allows for flexibility and not having to do the same thing everyday.
I think this is a solid plan. We’re gonna try it out because finally, after 36 years, I’m saying “fuck procrastinating anymore.” Lets ride folks! We’re gonna call this something catchy once I think of something catchy haha. Hell lets call this “dun not good.” #dunnotgood