Writing every day for 365 days, I’ve learned to lower the bar and to reduce expectations.
It has always been easy for me. When I start something, I quickly go in the flow, I usually have fun, and I produce something decent. Almost everything is generally almost easy for me.
And this is where perfectionism killed my creativity. To do too much, I’ve got stuck, and I didn’t do anything.
It happened after I’ve reached a good publishing pace—one article per week on my blog. Then I took the challenge of summarizing a complex and rich experience, and the draft started to grow. One thousand, two thousand, five thousand words. And I didn’t even finish it.
Reading and rereading, writing and rewriting, it became too much. I’ve started to get nausea.
And I failed. That draft is still sitting there. And I still have a terrible feeling if I think about it.
I’ve finally found the hard things. And you can face them only by taking a little chunk of them. Piece by piece. By making each piece so easy to accept that it’s almost effortless.
For instance, like this short essay, knowing I have only one page to fill on something so present to my mind makes my work not only comfortable but fun.
I couldn’t sleep. This essay came to my mind, spontaneously. I had to get up to write it at 2 am. It took me just the time to write it in one go.
Make your work easy to be done so that you cannot miss it. You’ll achieve great results.
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This is Essay 5 of 30 in the my challenge One Year Writing: 30 Lessons Learned in 30 Days
- The Journey is the Purpose (16 Nov 2020)
- Writing is Thinking (17 Nov 2020)
- Write a Lot to Write Well (18 Nov 2020)
- Creative Loneliness (19 Nov 2020)
- Be Less Ambitious, Be More Consistent (20 Nov 2020)
- Writing builds your networks (21 Nov 2020)
- Connect ideas now (22 Nov 2020)
- Writing improves your memory (23 Nov 2020)
- Writing makes you a better observer (24 Nov 2020)
- Writing sets the focus on yourself (25 Nov 2020)
- Dissolve your distractions (26 Nov 2020)
- Writing reduces your jargon and slang (27 Nov 2020)
- Walking generates ideas (28 Nov 2020)
- Writing is like drinking coffee (29 Nov 2020)
- Creativity makes you happy (30 Nov 2020)
- Be smart, let it go (1 Dec 2020)
- Writing is a process (2 Dec 2020)
- Automate repetitive tasks (3 Dec 2020)
- Publish text as digital text, not images (4 Dec 2020)
- Why asking questions? (5 Dec 2020)
- Facilitate growth by tracking habits (6 Dec 2020)
- Type more, type faster, type better (7 Dec 2020)
- Transcribe your thoughts to become an effective communicator (8 Dec 2020)
- Write daily to become a better manager (9 Dec 2020)
- Do it small to do it better (10 Dec 2020)
- Don’t lose your mind. Back it up (11 Dec 2020)
- Write daily to enhance your reality (12 Dec 2020)
- If only I could be ten, again (13 Dec 2020)
- Writing compounds despite everything (14 Dec 2020)
- The habit of building habits (15 Dec 2020)
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