10 Things You Need to do Before You do Stuff
by
Jean Paul Zodeaux
Doing stuff can often be a daunting task. Although most of us find no difficulty at all in starting to do stuff, it’s usually in the follow through – the slog of finishing what you started that becomes the difficult part and where many of us will abandon the stuff we’re doing because that stuff got too hard to do. Pierre Jean St. John, a social scientist and expert in doing stuff has studied the phenomenon of unfinished stuff and has discovered a scientifically proven way to do stuff. His peer reviewed paper on doing stuff is filled with physics equations, technical jargon and scientific lingo and reading that paper can wind up being the very kind of stuff some of us never know how to finish doing
For this reason, contributors to America Paradox have come together to synthesize and list reputed scietist Pierre Jean St. John’s ten steps you need to do before doing stuff:
1.) The very first thing you need to do before doing stuff is to prepare to do it. All too often it is the unprepared who fail to finish the stuff they were doing. In fact, Dr. St. John found, in a double blind clinical trial that 63.8% of all participants doing stuff who failed to prepare to begin with also failed to finish that stuff. Of the 36.2% of those that did prepare before doing stuff, 12.6% did shoddy preparation and to no one’s surprise also failed to finish doing stuff. Conversely, those who finished all the stuff they were doing also prepared to their stuff. Preparation is key.
2.) In order to properly prepare to do stuff, it is a good idea to have a pre-preparation plan. Not many people do this, but Dr. St. John found that every single person who had a pre-preparation plan finished doing their stuff in record time. Jean St. John is of course the recipient of the Nobel Prize for psychology breakthroughs for discovering that pre-preparation actually comes after the preparation begins and not before. “One cannot pre-prepare without first beginning the process of preparation” he said.
3.) Rest. Pre-preparation alone can take much out of someone, the whole process of preparation, which includes pre-preparation, preparation proper and post-preparation can be exhausting. Dr. St. John found that all of those who managed to finish doing stuff had taken the time off they needed to simply rest before taking on the arduous task of doing stuff. Make sure you are well rested before doing stuff.
4.) Reconsider your preparation. The last thing you want to do is to start doing stuff only to discover that it is way too hard to finish because all of your preparation was driven in the wrong direction and didn’t at all prepare you for the stuff ahead. It is always best to make this kind of discovery before you begin doing stuff than while in the midst of it. Reevaluating your prepartion would be the post-preparation part of your preparation optimally done after a period of rest.
5.) Once you’ve fully prepared, which is to say considered how poorly you’ve prepared before finally preparing for the actual stuff to be done, you are now ready to start doing stuff. For many people the is often the most daunting phase of doing stuff. This is why it is probably a good idea to rest again, Dr. St. John argues. “Doing stuff certainly wore out the participants of our study,k, but we found those who were well rested before doing stuff did stuff better and were able to finsish doing stuff more than their coutnerparts who had little to no rest.”
6.) Once you are well rested, now it is time to start actually doing stuff but before you get to the actual part of doing stuff it is always a good idea to begin with fundamental steps such as surveying the landscape of the stuff you are about to do and weighing that against the preparation you put into it. This may be the phase where you discover they do not match and you will probably have to go back to step one and begin again.
7.) If it turns out that all your preparations match well with your observations of the landsape of doing the stuff you prepared for, now it is time to do that stuff. Doing that stuff, however, should be done with the utmost of caustion and patience. The last thing you want to do while doing stuff is wind up doing some stuff that has nothing to do with the stuff you set out to do. It is best to examine each step in the process of doing the stuff you set out to do to make sure the targets and goals you set up in preparation are being reasonably met. Slow down and reason through, even if you have to slow down to halt and take breaks.
8.) If the stuff you are doing is taking longer than you had planned for, it is a good thing in your preparations you planned on any needed breaks to rest some before finally finishing the stuff you’re doing. If it takes getting some rest in between doing stuff in order to get that stuff done; “by all means, take a break!” Said Dr. St. John.
9.) For those who found they needed no rest, they’re finishing up the stuff they started doing or just giving up. While these past several steps have factually been more about the actual doing stuff than the things you need to do before you do stuff, the fact that you’re still reading this article demonstrates the fact that before you doing the actual stuff you first read this article.
10.) You are now at that point, those who have given up long gone, where you finally finish up doing the stuff you started doing. Congratulations to you when that finally happens and when it does….well, you’re welcome.