#228 Battling questions with questions

656 days ago, I started writing 3 pages of stream-of-consciousness journaling a day.

That’s an inner dialogue of 1968 pages poured into piles of journals now safely stuffed away.

30 days ago, some of those thoughts started making their way to my blog.

I promised myself that if I made it to 30 daily posts in a row, I would start sharing them.

Today is the day, so here goes.

I’m sharing daily observations about language, language learning, memory, creativity, habits, discipline, the art of learning, tools for thought.

Lessons I’ve learned.
Insights I’ve earned.

Words I’ve heard.
Memories spurred.

Books I’ve read.
Poems flowing out of my heart and head.

No rules, no fixed topic, no niche, no marketing strategy.
Nothing but whatever’s on my mind.

I’ve learned a lot so far, but the most important insight: there’s power in publishing imperfect work.

Because if I allow myself to create something imperfect every day, I’m certain that someday the sum of all these imperfect creations will be something I’m proud of.

It’s liberating.

Maybe there’s liberating power in reading someone else’s imperfect work too.

I can’t wait to find out together with you.

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Giving it your best doesn’t mean you’ll always create your best work.

But when you give it your best daily and you zoom out, you’ll notice how, slowly but surely, your best work becomes better and better.

And that’s all that matters.

Not taking action on your dreams won’t get you anywhere.

But taking too much action will burn you out – and won’t get you anywhere either.

In an ideal world:

• You underdo it when you feel super excited (to avoid burnout)
• You overdo it when you feel defeated (to make sure you stay on track)

If you wouldn’t see overwhelming results in your first 30 days of writing, working out, dieting, or learning an instrument, would you still show up?

Are you okay with small, almost invisible gains because the process of learning, creating, practicing is fulfilling enough in itself?

And if not, could you be okay with that, if you knew it was the key to learning or creating anything you ever wanted?

When you write every day, you believe you can write every day.

When you don’t write every day, you believe you can’t every day.

And so it goes for running, working out, eating healthy, playing the guitar, or anything else you’re frustrated or satisfied with.

Beliefs follow actions.

Actions confirm beliefs.

So follow your actions to uncover your beliefs.

Then change your actions to change your beliefs.