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# Take Action
- URL: https://acmewong.com/take-action/
- Published: 2026-09-21T18:53:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T18:53:02.000Z
- Author: Acme Wong

The idea that you need to "figure out" something is part of the problem.

You're overthinking.

Yes, you could think really hard and try to make something perfect, but that's best done when you already have momentum.

If you don't have momentum, then you're wasting effort trying to "improve" and "refine" whatever you're making because you don't know what "improved," "refined," or "better" even looks like.

You may think you do, but chances are you'll waste time and energy trying to make something perfect in your eyes, only to find that in the eyes of the people you wish to serve, it sucks.

Now you have no momentum and you overspent on creating a single thing that gives you limited feedback.

If all that time and energy was spread out and you didn't waste time overthinking and seeking perfection, then you could have put 40 things out there for your audience to find, one at a time, getting lots of feedback and seeing what resonates.

You already know the general direction you want to go in, so start building rough momentum in that direction.

Once the momentum is built, the habits established, and the systems are running smoothly, then grab the wheel and begin driving that momentum with greater clarity, specificity, and understanding.

I am sitting on the toilet now.

I had to poo and I didn't want to stop writing.

Talk about maintaining momentum!

Momentum is the magic of compound action.

Your actions don't have to be perfect.

Stack lots of action and as those actions build, one upon another, you become more informed and will naturally do better work.

Trying to be perfect right now is stalling you.

Perfect, right now, would be if you took a lot of messy, seemingly ineffective and inefficient action.

You actions may seem ineffective and inefficient because you make stuff, whether it's writing, a podcast, paintings, music, or something else, and nobody likes it or even realizes you exist.

It's counterintuitive, but to best serve others, you must first not care about others and only think about you, your habits, your commitments, your dedication, and your relationship to creativity, the Muse, Inspiration.

Stop focusing on reaping the fruits of your labor when your fruit trees are planted in lifeless, barren soil.

If you ignore the fruit and focus on the soil, then excellent fruit will figure itself out.

If you focus on the fruit and ignore the soil, you will struggle and strain to produce even mediocre fruit.

The first step to reviving your soil is compost.

You need to start throwing as much organic scraps as you can into a compost heap daily.

Those organic scraps are new songs that nobody wants to listen to, blog posts that nobody wants to read, YouTube videos that people will immediately click off of because they suck.

This writing you are reading right now is compost.

Add to the compost heap every day and it will grow bigger and bigger, and soon it'll full of worms and a whole, vibrant network of bacterial and fungal life emerges from it.

The Muse sees this and begins mixing the living compost into the soil of your subconscious mind.

Now you have the potential to reap a bountiful harvest.

Right now, if you're in the beginning like I am, you only have the potential to get to where you have the potential to reap a bountiful harvest.

And you get there by composting (creatively expressing yourself, however ugly it may be) every day.

If you want to be a successful YouTuber (like I do), but are starting from absolute zero (like I am), what could you do that successful YouTubers do?

Zoom out, think in broad strokes.

What do successful YouTubers do?

They upload good videos to YouTube.

Since we're new, let's just round that down to "they upload videos to YouTube."

We can do that. Anyone can do that.

We could grab a phone, record us talking to the camera, upload it to YouTube, and now we're a YouTuber.

Probably not a very good YouTuber, but its movement in the right direction.

What else do successful YouTubers do? 

They upload consistently, on a schedule.

The more consistent we are with whatever we create, and the more frequently we can do it (daily is a good goal) the more momentum we build, the healthier our compost heap becomes, and soon the soil of our land will be fertile and brimming with life.

You want as many reps in early as you can get in.

You want to make as many mistakes and learn from those mistakes while you are still unknown.

You want to find your voice, become more comfortable on camera, learn your style, discover who you want to serve and how you can best serve them, but you can't do any of that stuff by thinking about it or trying to "figure it out." 

You figure it out by making a lot of garbage that, over time, becomes more full of life and actual becomes stuff that others love and appreciate.

Your repeated actions gradually uncover things that you only ever could have uncovered by taking all the actions that you took.

Take action!

That's the key.

Do it every day.

TAKE DAILY ACTION TOWARD WHO YOU WANT TO BE.

Screw up, learn, and do a little better the next day, then the next, forever.

Build your compost heap.

Load it up with all of your garbage ideas, your terrible paintings, your trash music, your stupid writing, your horrible YouTube videos, all of it.

Fill your compost heap daily with creative garbage that others will actively avoid because it stinks, but you still put it out there every day because that garbage is better placed outside in the compost heap than stored up inside your soul, just rotting you away from the inside.

That compost heap will never be fruit itself, but over time the unseen creative forces of the universe will work that compost into the dry soil of your subconscious mind, and new ideas begin to emerge, new inspirations, and new life flows through you and it does so effortlessly.

At least that's what's happening for me and I think it'll work for you too if you consistently create daily.

Okay so you consumed this, now go create something with love and then ruthlessly dump it out into your compost heap for everyone to see and try to avoid.

I look forward to seeing what garbage you put out today!

Toodles,  
Acme