Have you ever scrolled all the way back to the beginning of someone’s social media feed, YouTube channel, or blog?

Unless they have deleted their early efforts or actually began their journey elsewhere, you will likely find content that is not at the level of professionalism, refinement, and focus of their most recent work.

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Back in the quiet, peaceful days before there was Internet on planes, I used to use flying time for high-level planning.

I loved the opportunity to work on my metaphorical 20,000-foot view while literally at 20,000 feet.

I always faced the same problem with this planning: The closer I got to figuring out something that I wanted to do, the more new ideas I would generate.

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I never enjoyed cooking very much because I always had the vague sense that I didn’t know what I was doing.

Even though I spent years working in commercial kitchens, I didn’t have much of an awareness of knife technique or other aspects of food preparation. Therefore, I was intimidated by recipes. I stuck to routine meals that I could figure out through trial and error.

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Have you ever had a task that lingered on your to-do list so long that it started to resemble a scary container of leftovers from the back of the fridge?

It isn’t always logical which tasks are going to end up moldy. Some of them really don’t take long to do, yet they keep getting passed over and procrastinated on. There’s always something else that is more urgent or appealing.

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It’s good to steal helpful tactics from anywhere you can find them.

So many of the interesting solutions I’ve come up with were adapted from other industries or disciplines for application in my own.

One example is the “couch to 5K” concept that gets beginning runners into action to the point at which they are able to run and walk continuously for long enough to complete a 5K race.

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