How I do things I want to do: 3/3 ROLL

There’s a lot of exciting things going on in my life. However when you choose not to follow the average path it’s not always easy. But to get things done and create a reach I do three things: I face, focus and roll.

The next weeks I’ll make three blogposts about those categories. Last week I wrote about ‘FACE’ and ‘FOCUS’, here’s the third and last post:

ROLL

Make mistakes, make fun
Don’t care about making mistakes. Fail and then fail better, you’ll be better only when you try. So keep trying, enjoy small improvements.

The best answer is a question
When people ask you questions and you don’t know the best response. Answer with another question. Such as: “What do you think would be the best?”. It’s a matter of keeping it simple, you don’t know everything, accept that, figure out together.

Accept you’re not perfect
Mention it, it takes a lot of stress away knowing that things won’t always work at once. Please explain people. Strive for the best, but don’t shoot yourself when you did not get it all. You can’t do more than 100%

Delete your facebook account
Seriously? Well I actually should. But since I need I have nearly 4000 people supporting my foundation online, I cannot just put it aside if it were nothing. But if I could start over I would. I hate facebook, it wastes my time, it’s addictive, it’s not supportive. I use an app called Self Control to block myself from both facebook and twitter when I need to roll and focus.
I think this graph will help you quiet a lot to roll better.

Don’t be a politician
Stop debating, arguing, trying to convince people, campaigning and launching good one liners. Just make stuff and show it. The problem of politicians is that they’re short term, one day flies, your projects are long term and more efficient. You’ll be there forever.
Politicians are coming up with terribly good arguments for terribly bad ideas, they win and that sucks. Don’t be one.

Don’t invent things that already exsist, support and join
There was a long time I had plenty of ideas and really hated the fact when someone came up with a similar idea. I tried to explain others why my invention was much better.
Now I endorse every idea I love, I help and make it work. In the end it’s about the idea not about you.

You cannot do everything
Share your ideas you don’t have time for. I put them online on another little blog. People can pick them up and go on with them. I love that, otherwise, nobody would realize them.

Work hard
Nothing goes for free. To get things done you need to work hard.

The art of saying no
Dieter Rams [link = clip], Sir Jonathan Ive’s favorite designer, made a list of ten design principles. One of his design principles was as follows: “Good design is as little design as possible”. Why? Because it concentrates on the essential aspects that are needed.
This can be applied to anything: good work is as less work as possible: less is just better. Only work on just those things you think are most important. Say no to the rest.

Conclusion

Whenever you are running a business or doing something small or bigger, face reality, keep focus and most of all: roll.