Lonely Weight

A common complaint of mine when I was younger was that " I have so many ideas I just don't know where to start". My inability to find the starting line was in my opinion the single most important hurdle I needed to overcome and as soon as I magically found that crucial first step I would be fine.  This in turn led to the constant putting off of ideas as I believed that one day I'd have a Eureka moment where the solution would be found. I never had such a eureka moment.  I remember being frustrated at the fact that I kept having ideas that I loved but couldn't put into action. Big bold plans for the future, ideas such as this very website which had been on my mind for months but I didn't know where to start.  My mindset on this source of frustration when I watched videos regarding my problems and realized several things, first, I was getting all of my joy and dopamine from merely planning the idea not the implementation of the idea. I would fill my notebooks with notes regarding how awesome my idea was if it could be implemented and how happy I'd be but as soon as it came down to actually getting down to the work, procrastination would peek its head and make itself at home. Second , I made every plan sound daunting, mainly because I never wrote anything down and instead thought about it. The change to this horrid routine came by way of me watching a video where the youtuber said something along the lines of " what would this look like if it was easy ? " . This question is meant to deconstruct the seemingly impossible problem and break it down into small pieces, it also addresses the fact that often we overestimate the difficulty of a task. I can genuinely say that implementing this new question into my working process has been fantastic. For this website for example , I sat down and started writing down and breaking down the steps that I would need to take in order to create a website from everything ranging from the domain name to what site I would pay to host. I now treat all of my plans like this , whenever I have what I believe to be great idea I ask myself " whats the first thing I can do to work towards this goal ? ". Starting off light and building momentum has worked wonders for me.