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What to do when you're stuck

Have more bad ideas

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Jim Dalling
Nov 23, 2022
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When nothing is finished and you’re tits deep in a project, life can feel overwhelming.

All of it seems so big, so vast, how could any of these things get finished. It’s difficult to see the end.

You ever find yourself here? Stuck and out of good ideas?

This can be an impossible place. When you are stuck and without a clue or a good idea to save your life it’s tough to know what to do next.

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Try three bad ideas.

Three stupid ideas.

Three ideas that may have failed before.

Three ideas that were rejected before.

They were too - too unreasonable, too absurd, too expensive…

If they don’t work try three more.

Actually try them. Put them in action. Don’t merely think of your bad ideas and clamp down on them. Speak them. Suggest them. Try.

Are any of them working just a little?

No?

Try a few more bad ideas.

There are good ones in there. They’re just a bit cluttered. We are full of ideas, both good and bad.

Start trying the bad ideas. Get them out of the way.

And at the same time, you’ll learn so much from…

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