Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Once again I attempt to make a million dollars be creating a three-letter acronym – DIN.

Some 30 years ago (yes, I am that old), I was pouring myself a cup of coffee at work. On the bulletin board in front of me was an article cut from the newspaper (see ANOTHER NOTE below). The article was about GTD (getting things done for the acronym-challenged folks reading this). The secret, as proposed by this newspaper clipping, to GTD was:

Do It Now

• Don’t think about it
• Don’t write a reminder for yourself
• Just do it – right now

Being young (way back then) and impressionable (still am), I tried this idea. It worked. It worked so well that I kept doing it and am still doing it today.

Yes, there are some tasks that I can’t do now (I won’t go into a list here, maybe later ;-). Still, the majority of tasks can be done now.

So here, goes, my three-letter acronym that I have yet to see anywhere else:

DIN

Put that one next to DIY, GTD, and so on. Give me credit. Send me royalty checks. Call me for the motion picture rights.

NOTE: While researching this little blog post that might make me a million dollars, I found this excellent post from Steve Pavlina in which he advocates the Do It Now idea. He, however, doesn’t seem to use the DIN acronym.

ANOTHER NOTE: People used to do that kind of thing. We had these objects called bulletin boards that were attached to the walls. People would cut items out of the paper newspaper and paper magazines and attach those paper items to the bulletin board with a small pointy object called a thumbtack or a push pin. See Pinterest for something that resembles these push pins. See any wiki for something that resembles a bulletin board.