cult of done with or without hypnosis

I have always wanted to get hypnotized. I'm fascinated by someone being able to implant a way of being and doing so effortlessly into one's head. I have often wondered if you can get hypnotized to be more motivated and stop procrastinating. It seems so much more fundamental than doing it to stop smoking or over-eating! Wouldn't it be wonderful to just wake up and act, to go forward with your ideas without doubt or fear or laziness? Maybe it would be cheating or weakness or make me a crazy tunnel visioned robot, but I have never adequately conquered my own inner procrastination/talking out my ass/ beast and I wouldn't mind the outside help.

It is hard to be approaching 35 and realize that if I don't make good on some of these dreams I dream, the time will have past and I already feel the raw edge of regret creeping in. I know life can feel long on a daily basis, but increasingly I'm noticing it flying by. I want to lasso time and hold it captive and make her my mistress! I can't believe I've been back from New York 5 years which was as long as I lived there. I've catalogued a lot of good things in the last 5 years (hi, 2 beautiful children made from scratch!) but I really want to get serious about my goal to Achieve-- note the very serious capital A.

I am impressed with doers. I'm impressed by people that do less talking and more acting. I'm impressed with people who try and are unafraid of looking silly. This is an area I could really stand to improve in. I want to be one of those people.

Jaren sent me the above manifesto courtesy of the very interesting Bre Pettis today that so sums up the way I feel and the way I would like to approach my ideas and my sense of "doing" going forward. In case the cool graphics are hard to make out, here is the complete manifesto:

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

I love it! Hope you do too!

Between this and Gretchen Rubin of the Happiness Projects' reminder "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good", I think I have some new, inspiring guidelines to grow from. I need to just get out there and start swinging and not worry so much about whether I've had the right coaching or know the rules. But please, don't forget to tell me if you know a good hypnotist!