Showing up, day after day, is the best way to create and get it done.
It’s not an earth-shattering concept—doing something every day. Yet, so many of us are not doing it.
Derek Sivers recently granted me permission to be on www.nownownow.com. sive.rs
If you visit nownownow.com, you will see a grid of people’s faces. If you click on a face, you will be directed to its Now page.
The idea of a now page is a constantly updated “about me” page. A dynamic, living website page that tells the visitor what the person is up to.
I looked at people’s Now pages, but many were not updated. More than 70% of the Now pages I looked at were either no longer a Now page or a Now page that hasn’t been updated in many months or years.
They started a Now page to keep it current, but somewhere down the road, they veered of course, and now their Now page is dead.
With just a fifteen-minute-a-week commitment, they could keep it current.
It takes so little to keep creative work alive.
Daily work is a powerful tactic that can move many stale projects to completion.
Daily work can write books, compose music, grow businesses, create art.
I’ve been working on this daily habit for many years. I started this daily blog post and my Now page for that very reason: to create and keep a daily routine of working on something difficult.
Some projects require three hours a day. Some only fifteen minutes a day.
But it’s the daily part that is the powerful part.
Decide what’s important.
Schedule a reminder.
Get it done.
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