“Like a very talented pianist once told me when I was a boy, it’s better to practice a musical instrument for five minutes a day than to practice for two hours once a week. It’s something I never forgot.”
– Hugh MacLeod, Evil Plans
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“But you must do. Modifying your own behavior is the most effective and rewarding way to minimize the gap. Simply thinking will not move the needle. In fact, the more you think without doing, the longer the list of things that “need” to be done becomes and the wider the gap gets. The wider the gap, the more stress, anxiety and risk of paralysis. The only way to close the gap is to act!”
– Nic Peterson, Bumpers
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I enjoy my daily writing practice.
A little writing time. A modest daily commitment to hit publish.
Doing something small now is so much better than the big pressure of a mega session later.
I cannot imagine sitting down on a weekend and saying, “right, got to write seven blog posts today.”
No way. I would be too overwhelmed.
But I chip away daily.
I’m not looking for perfection, but for the happy medium between reflection and completion.
Hitting publish wraps up my current thought.
I feel better.
I give myself a hit of what I crave- a dose of daily medication administered from within.
My inexhaustible supply of good feeling.
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