⏱ The Best Minute: How to create inspiration, good habits, and overcoming doubt
💡 1 IDEA FROM ME
You have to show up before inspiration will.
Great writers follow a consistent writing schedule, regardless of how they feel
Great athletes follow a consistent training schedule, regardless of how they feel
Great musicians follow a consistent practice schedule, regardless of how they feel
Sometimes things will flow easier than others, sometimes you won’t make much progress. But meaningful work rarely happens if we wait until we are in the mood. In fact, most (if not all) of your triumphs in life happened because you worked hard and stuck with it. Got into that school? Got that job or promotion? Got that “lucky” break? You had likely positioned yourself by showing up.
What’s more, inspiration is much more likely to occur when you have pre-determined to give yourself space for it to happen. You just need to train yourself to get started.
If you keep showing up, inspiration won’t be too far behind.
💬 2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I. Kevin Kelly on the importance of good habits:
The purpose of a habit is to remove the action from self-negotiation. You no longer expend energy deciding whether to do it. You just do it. Good habits can range from telling the truth to flossing.
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II. Ed Latimore on overcoming doubt:
“Someone with half your IQ is making 10x as you because they aren’t smart enough to doubt themselves.”
💯 1 RESOURCE I RECOMMEND
Use the voice command “Hey Siri” (iPhone) or “Hey Google” (Andriod) on your phone to set time-sensitive reminders.
If I need to remember something at a specific time, I always use Siri to do so. If I need to remember to pack something to bring to work the next day, I’ll say something like “Hey Siri, remind me at 5:30 PM to pack X.” Or, if I need to remember to do something on Sunday morning as I prepare for Sunday services at New City, I’ll say “Hey Siri, remind me at 7:45 AM to input graphic onto the church computer.”
It’s a quick and easy way to remind me of a simple task, and doing it this way ensures it doesn’t get forgotten.
🤯 1 INTERESTING FACT
In 1958, high schooler Bob Heft designed the 50-star American flag that flies today. At the time, Alaska and Hawaii were not yet states, but Heft assumed they would become states, so he altered his family's existing 48-star flag to add two more stars.
Heft spent more than 12 hours cutting 50 white stars from iron-on material, adhering the stars to a piece of blue cloth and sewing the new field of stars to his parents' 48-star American flag. He cleverly arranged the 50 stars into a field that included five rows of six stars and four rows of five stars.
His teacher gave him a B- at the time, but two years later, after President Dwight D. Eisenhower selected his flag's design out of 1,500.
Source: American Flag
🤔 1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
If you repeated what you did today 365 more times, will you be where you want to be next year?
