What’s So Positive About Getting Shit Done?
Getting shit done feels good.
When you’ve given something you’re doing a ton of focus and energy, and then finish, how does that make you feel? Have you ever put a great deal of effort into a project, and after it was done, felt a sense of elation, relief, and/or completeness?
There’s something to be said for the power of getting shit done. Yet it’s all too easy to get so caught up in the various acts of doing that getting done takes an unexpected back seat.
Yet most projects you do are going to have a beginning, middle, and an intended end. Society, unfortunately, gets hyper-focused on doing, constantly being busy, and automated work. Getting shit done? Who gets shit done when there’s always shit to do?
Yet getting shit done is hugely positive. That’s because the power of completion compels you on every level – mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and even physically.
What’s the big deal?
All too often, the focus is on doing. The problem is, this is not directed or intentional. Instead, it’s about looking and being busy.
How many people work in an office where they’re expected to appear for at least 8 hours a day? Consider this – how much genuine time is spent working for most? How often do you look busy so the boss will leave you be?
I’ve done this. I worked at a job where, for the most part, actual work took me maybe 2 hours a day. For the other 6, however? Not so much. I needed to do busy work so that I appeared busier than I was. Additionally, I once had a job where I had to bill out at least 35 hours a week. Although some weeks this was fully legit, on others it was making up busywork.
Pretending to work is not positive. In fact, for me, it feels the opposite. I’d rather not invent time spent working because that feels like cheating or otherwise abusing my time.
This is part of why doing something and getting it done – getting shit done – is positive. Because it isn’t just about busy work, but actual work and the literal and figurative accomplishment resulting from getting it done.
It’s also super easy to make excuses for not getting shit done. While there are always one or two legit reasons not to complete something, mostly it tends to be about excuses. Also, the quest for “perfection” will frequently prevent getting shit done.
Done, however, is better than perfect. Thus, getting done and generating positivity from this is massively empowering.
Getting shit done is empowering
When you’re getting shit done, you feel a sense of accomplishment. Possibly achievement. It feels good to say now you got that thing done.
What the thing is doesn’t matter. The act of completing work is empowering. Why? Because you did it.
The world has far too many ways to disempower you. There are so many messages of lack, scarcity, and insufficiency targeted to keep you disempowered, feeling wanting and insignificant. These are also selling you notions that your worth is less than that of someone else.
Yet you’re capable of amazing things. Hence why getting shit done is proof positive. You feel accomplished, empowered, and good. That, in turn, can lead you to seeking and finding more empowerment by getting more shit done.
You’re worthy and deserving
No matter the messages to the contrary, you are worthy and deserving of being, doing, having, and all other desires for your life experience. One way this is proven is that you have gotten shit done before, so you can do it again.
Think back on how it felt to get that thing done. You deserve that feeling and overall sense of wellbeing again. What’s more, you need not be better, happier, or whatever else. You are, and that alone makes you worthy and deserving.
What’s more, the degree of difficulty involved in what you get done is not important. Just getting out of bed in the morning totally counts, for example. That’s because you, and you alone, can do this.
Truth is, everything you can do is part of your story and what makes you, you. You’re worthy of that. You’re deserving of it, too. Kick ass, take names, and be the best you that you can be, and revel in getting shit done when you do.
Recognizing what’s positive about getting shit done isn’t hard
It’s all about practicing mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge it feels good and creates a sense of wellbeing in you to get shit done, you can put the necessary focus and energy into any and all projects you’re working on to get them done. Knowing that this positive sense from getting shit done creates is something positive that you’re worthy and deserving of, you can use this as leverage to improve your life experience and get more things done.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity – from the vast cylinder that exists between them – shifts life in a way that opens more dialogue. With a broader dialogue, you can explore and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself employs an approach and attitude of positivity for realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself in the now, the more you can do to choose and decide how your life experiences will be. When that empowers you, it can spread to those around you to their empowerment.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the five-hundred and thirty-first (531) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog, and spread the positivity.
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