Nonachievement and Failure

This past week I was feeling a sense of non accomplishment most of the time. Not in the time I was in college. Because when I was at college I used most of the time to talk to students and get feedback from them about Rally Society (my product) which was productive. The feeling of non accomplishment this week came when I was sitting at home after college and on days when I didn’t have college in.

This feeling was mostly because I spent this time neither creating any marketing content for the society, nor planning, nor talking to users (students). I didn’t talk to users because there were not a lot of them who ask me for things, and I didn’t initiate conversations with them because I'd already talked to them when I was at college. So why didn’t I create any marketing content or make anything valuable to feel a sense of accomplishment?

I think this was mainly because the thing that I had to get done with was… I didn't know what I had to do. I had a lot of tasks and I was so distracted between all of them. I wanted to do a lot of things. including:

• Talk to students and understand their problems (my initial week task, but I distracted myself with the tasks below)

• Find co-founders to work with me

• Help students improve their ideas submissions

• Discuss ideas with college doctors

• Creating a community for the students to give them tips and to communicate with each other

At first, my goal was just to talk to students, but I found out that there are 3 types of students I can talk to. Which created a big distraction for me on which group I should talk to.

Also I distracted myself with the rest of the tasks. What happened was any new task that comes to my mind I would think is kind of important I would add to my list of tasks that need to get done by the end of the week. Which is the same mistake I fell into the week before. I used to get ideas that I think were good and I would put in my brain and pressure myself that I need to do them this week, even though some of them were physically impossible to get done this week and the rest of them were simply distracting.

CONCLUSION

I distributed my efforts across multiple things, which eventually led to none of them getting done.

I think finding co-founders and recruiting is a whole mission on its own and if I should do it I should be completely free and focused on it with no other tasks beside it.   

I should have a fuckin clear plan, with a main goal for the week, and a set of tasks to accomplish this goal. Any ideas that come during the week I could consider doing in the current week if it won’t conflict with this week’s tasks. If it will conflit then I should just consider it in the upcoming weeks, not the current.