Today something amazing happened... I read a blog post that really hit on the head some of the issues I have been struggling with lately... The issues have been an extension between my war on thinking vs doing...

I read a post by Bre Pettis. I don't really know anything about Bre, although I do now follow him on Google+. The post was entitled The Cult of Done Manifesto and I hope that Bre doesn't mind if I reproduce the post here:

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.

Read the full post here: http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html

I'm joining the cult

My big take aways from this:

• everything is a draft - phew! I am glad to be done with the notion of striving for perfection. My focus is now on iteration.
• just accept that you know what you are doing - most of my journey on this blog has been around my search for knowledge and validation. I do need more knowledge, but I have to finally admit (and hat tip to Geoff Barbaro for helping me out on this in recent years) I know what I am doing!
• Banish procrastination - 'nuff' said!
• Failure counts as done.
• Done is the engine of more.

What's your take on The Cult of Done? What does this mean for entrepreneurs/ startups? For more on that, head to my other website (http://www.healthystartups.com) where I'll post soon!

Thanks to Bre for a huge shot of inspriation today!