My good friend Kevin Beck turned me on to Bre Pettis and his Cult of Done blog post. Here it is, just because it is worth reprinting:

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

I would like add a few more–think of them as corollaries:

1. If you get it done fast and then fail, you’re still better off then the bunch of wankers sitting around thinking about it.
2. If perfection is the enemy of good, then done is the enemy of stress.
3. If you have an idea and just talk about it, then you are not done. You are wasting everyone’s time.
4. If you have an idea that languishes for more than a month, and you rediscover it and it still tastes yummy, set aside a day and get it done. That sound you hear is the universe knocking on your door.
5. Chicks dig done.