Get It Down. Don’t Think It Up.
messy action, chipmunk wisdom & the epidemic of underexpressing
This week, I accidentally posted a reel of myself talking about the in-between season of May — and didn’t realize until too late that speeding it up turned my voice into a full-blown chipmunk.
I cringed. I considered deleting it. I almost didn’t post it at all.
But something in me said: leave it.
And honestly? I’m glad I did.
Because there’s something so perfect about that chipmunk voice carrying a message about embracing messiness, the creative in- between of May, and practicing the rituals that get us out of our heads and back into expression.
It was a real-time reminder of the thing I’m unlearning over and over again:
✨ Progress over perfection.
✨ Presence over polish.
✨ Expression over performance.
It’s not a lack of ideas. It’s a crisis of overthinking.
We are not experiencing a shortage of ideas, or the desire for expression,
or the longing to be seen, or to create.
What we’re experiencing is a crisis of overthinking.
We hoard our thoughts like they’ll vanish if we don’t grip them tight.
We plan, overanalyze, and wait—for the perfect tone, the perfect timing, the right energy, the right moment.
How to word the new offer you’ve been sitting on.
How to say the honest thing in your next post.
How to tell your partner what’s been on your heart.
How to raise your rates without apologizing.
How to say yes before you’ve figured it all out.
How to start again, in public, without the polished story.
But in the meantime?
We’re not creating.
We’re thinking about creating.
We’re trying to think things up,
when what we really need…
is to get something down.
This is a phrase I heard on the podcast Internet People:
Get it down. Don’t think it up.
It landed like a gut-punch and a warm hand on my shoulder at the same time.
Because it’s not about hustling. It’s not about pushing through.
It’s about unhooking from the idea that your expression needs to be planned, polished, or profound before it’s allowed to exist.
It’s about making space for all the noise—
The inner critic.
The bills.
The thing they said that still lingers.
The quiet ache of wanting to be witnessed.
Get it down.
In a notebook.
In a voice note.
In a feral scream in the woods.
Just get it out of you.
What if you let it be ugly?
Unfinished.
Too much.
Not enough.
What if you lowered the bar—not because you don’t care,
but because you’re done abandoning the part of you
that just wants to be seen?
This season, I’m practicing bare minimum magic—progress over perfection, curiosity over output.
Morning pages (even if it’s just a single paragraph).
Pressing record and sharing before my inner critic gets a say.
Voice notes. Foraging. Wandering.
Yelling/singing in the forest.
Watercolour calligraphy.
Sitting in the sun, writing one true line.
It’s not sexy.
It’s not optimized.
But it’s honest.
And that honesty?
That’s what builds momentum.
Here’s what I know:
You don’t need another productivity hack.
You need to remember how it feels to express without editing yourself in real time.
You don’t have to go viral.
You don’t have to sound wise.
You don’t even have to finish the thing.
You just have to let it move.
Even if it sounds like a chipmunk.
Journal Prompt:
Where are you waiting for things to be perfect before you begin?
What would it look like to start before you’re ready?
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You don’t have to do it perfectly.
You just have to begin.
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