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Each day feels new, and my memory of the one before is faint. I’m learning to adapt.

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#1110214 added March 9, 2026 at 7:37am
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The Work or Getting the Work Done
This morning started with coffee and a small problem.
The coffee was easy.
The problem was that I wanted a blog post today.
To be clear, no one is asking for this post. There isn’t an editor waiting. No one is refreshing a website wondering where it is.
This deadline is entirely self-inflicted.
Apparently I woke up this morning and decided that future-me should have something to write about.
So I sat down at the keyboard, took a sip of coffee, and stared at the blinking cursor long enough for it to start feeling a little judgmental.
That’s when the question showed up.
What is more important… the work or getting the work done?
At first those sound like the same thing.
They aren’t.
Getting the work done means finishing something. Hitting publish. Crossing the task off the list and moving on.
But the work itself is something else.
The work is the idea that shows up first.
Then the rough draft that looks promising for about thirty seconds.
After that comes doubt, which usually arrives right on schedule.
Then comes polishing. Moving sentences around. Fixing words that were perfectly fine five minutes ago.
Eventually, if you stay with it long enough, the last step appears.
Done.
Not perfect. Just done.
Which, now that I think about it, is exactly what happened this morning.
Coffee. Idea. Draft. Doubt. Polish.
Done.
Turns out wanting the blog post meant doing the work first.
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