How Low Can You Go?
My brother surprised me with the book “The Artist’s way” By Julia Cameron, it’s a workbook that offers insights about creative blocks. The first lesson taught is “Morning Pages” the idea of this exercise is to write three pages longhand every morning regardless how you feel. Even if you write “I can’t think today” for three pages that still counts, the goal isn’t to write anything of value but just showing up.
Today’s post was a mishmash of one of my morning pages. It may be redundant at times but I felt there was a gem of insight even if it's buried deep (WAYYY DEEP!).
There’s been something you’ve wanted to do for a longtime but you’ve been fearful of failure or ridicule.
Today, write down a plan of action, the first step in a long journey to your goal. Step one could be as simple as “write a timeline of how I think it will go”.
At least with a timeline you have structure and know the next step. When an idea comes it’s ephemeral.
Writing it down and creating a timeline solidifies it in reality. Instead of focusing on the meta overarching goal, you can focus on individual tasks that together build something much greater.
You won’t start today, you didn’t wake up with that intention and that’s okay but write a plan to start for this week. Pick a day and a task and set the bar as low as possible.
Better to do a task that you know you’re more than capable of than never do it from as Steven Pressfield says “paralysis from analysis”.
Start today and you a year from now will be grateful you did.
Take it from someone who started Substack a year ago. :)