#73 Why am I rushing?

Make your habits easy to stick to by making them tiny.

Make your habits tiny to make it easy to build self-trust.

Make your habits part of your identity, so that you’re not scared to answer the following question anymore:

Did you do it or not?

What would you finally dare to do today
if you knew whatever you try will never be perfect anyway?

Publish a story with typos and awkward sentences?
Run a marathon without finishing it?
Play a guitar piece and trip up five times?
Sing in front of other people and miss a note?
Try a new yoga pose in class and fall over?

Nothing will be perfect today.
Nothing will be perfect tomorrow.

But if you take imperfect action
and dare to publish imperfect work
everything you do will have the perfect taste of progress and consistency.

And that’s all that counts anyway.

There’s nothing wrong with chasing quick wins, as long as you define them well.

Because the first quick wins are usually internal and invisible.

Only when you’ve won some battles against the inner critic who wants you to give up do the external quick wins kick in.

And that’s how it’s supposed to be.

We’re not able to see almost everything in life and are blind to only a couple of things.

We’re blind to almost everything in life and are able to see only a couple of things.

And of the things we are able to see, we (consciously or subconsciously) focus on an even smaller subset, and then turn a blind eye to the rest.

To live a creative life, there’s no need to create anything new.

Open your eyes, prick up your ears, smell the air, and feel the earth beneath your feet.

Then open your heart, taste your thoughts, sense subtle shifts, and heed the voice in your head.

When you marry your inner and outer world
insights unfurl.