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Short
The past few weeks I have sent countless emails and follow-up emails for two organizations that I am a part of. Many of these emails have contained a plethora of important information that needs to be communicated, but I have made it my goal to make them as short as possible. No one wants to read an email that is unnecessarily long, and important details can easily be lost in a lengthy email. As weird as this may sound, I think that same general idea can apply to life as a whole. In life it is really easy to over-complicate things. Not always, but sometimes, the simplest solution is the best solution.
Have you ever been trying to do something really hard or complicated, only to see someone do the same task but in a much simpler way, and you realize you just totally over-thought the whole situation? I think that is a really easy thing to do. It is easy to get caught up in one way of thinking and just totally miss that there is a simpler solution. In writing these emails, I have deleted 3 or 4 sentences to replace them with 1 more concise sentence countless times. I understand that writing emails might not be the best example of this, but I think it represents a much larger idea. Sometimes people just really get caught up in one way of thinking and quickly find that they wrote 3 paragraphs about something that could’ve been explained in one. No matter what you are doing in life, it can often be helpful to take a step back when you are struggling and try to see if there’s a simpler way to get the task done. There might not always be a simpler solution, but when there is, it can be an almost euphoric discovery to realize that your task just got easier.
So that is my challenge to you this week: keep it short. Whatever your tasks are for the week, try not to over-complicate anything. Oftentimes, the simplest solution is the best one. And it is a great feeling when you can shorten or simplify a task. For example, this is by far the shortest Monday Motivation I have ever written, but I think I still clearly communicated my point.
Stay Motivated,
-Dan
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