you don't need more time

"You don't need more time... you just need to decide" 
Seth Godin

This quote rescued me the other day. 

For the past 6 months, I've been working on a longer book (well longer for me--around 15,000 words). I was nearing the end of the (frightful) first draft and experiencing Writer Whiplash--where one minute your manuscript is great only to discover the next that it's been nothing but appalling drivel all along. 

As I was going over the text and deciding what was good and what wasn't, what stays/what goes, the anxiety was building and I was dithering and beginning to unravel everything. Like unknitting your knitting (not that I knit but you get the picture).  I felt I wouldn't ever finish. That I needed more time. That if only I had more time...

When this quote landed in my inbox.

"You don't need more time... you just need to decide." 

It stopped the unraveling and the self-doubt in their tracks. It unstuck me from my perfectionism bog. And freed me to... (as Nike says)... just do it.

What do you need to decide?