Take as long as you need. But get there. If you’re not planning on getting there, abandon it. There are things that have a time crunch on them, figure out if it’s for you or not (perhaps it’s not). That’s okay. What isn’t okay is rushing to get things done and making a mess of it.
Writing everything down makes any problem easier. I don’t know what our brains were designed for, but when it comes to writing down thoughts, ideas, concepts, blog ideas, stories, books, articles, plays, coding ideas, dilemmas, etc, etc. They improve 1000x once I write it down, it’s as though I’ve offloaded the thought of the problem to somewhere else, and now I start working on the problem at hand. (Also a great way to remember things).
You only have the solution to the problem when you see all the angles to the problem. And you only see all the angles to the problem when you admit you don’t know everything and you need to figure out a different way to make it work. Seeing all the angles starts with admitting you don’t have the answer.
Our footprints are bigger than they need to be. We have accounts all over the place now, we don’t even know what they are for anymore. How many times have you gone to a site for a new account and been told “there is already an account for this email”? You don’t need more and more accounts and products to get better. You need to focus on the ones you have, or switch to ones…
Old ideas don’t die. They get re-packaged, updated, built upon, and shipped in something different and better than before. They evolve. Just because you did something before and it didn’t work, doesn’t mean it won’t work this time with a few tweaks to it.