Each time they draw something, they see something different. In order for artists to improve, they need to draw the same thing over and over again. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn’t that enough?įrom Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers. Quote of the Week Never forget why you’re really doing what you’re doing. It should be required reading for everyone.
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I listened to the entirety of Alain de Botton's fantastic book How to Think More About Sexon Audible over two car journeys. And whenever I'm slow, everything is worse. I constantly find that whenever I move fast with stuff, everything is just better. This is a great read about why Speed Matters. It's a great discussion of the power of gaining a small but loyal audience - I'm glad I took the time to revisit it. 2 - Article -Īs I was writing the script for my latest video, I was reminded of Kevin Kelly's seminal essay ' 1000 True Fans'. What counts as 'enough'? It's a widely debated and subjective issue but it's broken down brilliantly by David Heinemeier Hansson, founder of Basecamp, in his article, appropriately entitled, ' Enough'. My Favourite Things This Week 1 - Article. We go through the list and talk about a bunch of the advices (?) that resonate with us. This week, we dig into Kevin Kelly's recent blog post "68 bits of unsolicited advice".
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice | Not Overthinking You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Castro (my favourite podcast app) or any other podcast app - just search for ‘Not Overthinking’. If you enjoy these emails, you’ll hopefully like that too. Over the next few weeks it'd be nice to hear what our collective struggles are, and we can share tips to make building the writing habit easier. If you'd like to join me in taking this challenge, hit the button and let me know. I'm hoping it'll do the same for me, and I'm hoping it's something I'll be able to continue beyond just 30 days. There are a tonne of blog posts from people who say that a regular writing habit changed their life. It's far more important to just start writing and figure out a system that works along the way. It would be nice to build a perfect system before starting the journey, but much like making a detailed revision timetable, it's an exercise in procrastination. Whichever app I use, I can track my word count either within the app itself, or by just copying/pasting the day's writing into a word document if I'm feeling particularly ghetto. Roam vs Notion vs Evernote vs Ulysses vs Drafts vs Bear. I won't lie - yesterday when I had this idea, I spent over an hour trying to figure out which app to use for it. What matters is hitting that target of 1,000 words a day. I might even 'just' write in my personal journal. I might look through my Resonance Calendar to find a book or podcast that's recently resonated with me, and write about that. I might look through the list of video ideas and riff on one of those. That's a win in my book :) What will I write about?Īnything really. Instead of sitting on my phone scrolling through Twitter, I'm writing this piece in Notion. It's been pretty busy all day, but it's now 5pm and I've got some time to take a breather. Like right now, I'm on a weekend on-call shift at work.
I'm hoping that by committing to 1,000 words a day, my default activity will be to write. I'll listen to a podcast, take a few notes, write a tweet or two, maybe plan a video, but generally when I'm in front of a computer, I tend to waste time because I don't have a default activity to do.
Over the past few weeks I've found myself spinning my gears without making much progress. It's also be the best way to refine our thinking, flesh out our ideas and expand on insights we stumble upon. This writing habit yields tweets, blog posts, videos, podcasts and even several books a year.īut writing isn't just about feeding the content machine. He writes 2,740 words a day, which adds up to a million words per year.
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Nathan (now the founder of ConvertKit, a $20m/year software business) has lots of blog posts talking about how writing 1,000 words a day changed his life. I've been inspired by the likes of Nathan Barry and Sean McCabe, online creators who've built engaged audiences and multiple revenue streams through writing online. I'm calling this "Couch to 1K" just for fun. For the next 30 days (at least), I'm going to write 1,000 words every day.
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