Bad To Great

If you want to be a great writer you have to start off as a bad writer.

After figuring out the basics, and going from zero writing to some writing, you grow to be a mediocre writer.

Then you sit down to write and you realize you’re mediocre and you’re going to have to put in a lot of effort if you want to be great.

It’s an incredibly heavy lift of commitment, learning, refining and risking if you actually want to get great. And there are no guarantees. And you’ll doubt yourself a lot along the way…probably every day. And the money may or may not come.

But being great at a craft, and pursing greatness in a craft, is one of life’s greatest gifts.

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Everywhere I Go

There’s an old Ben Folds lyric that goes, ‘everywhere I go, damn, there I am’.

That’s the thing about getting everything you hoped for. You go with you.

Achieving the success you always wanted and becoming the person you always wanted to be don’t often go hand in hand.

Both are worth pursuing but as long as you get the second one, the first one will work itself out.

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New Running Shoes

The point of new running shoes is to have used running shoes.

If they stay looking fresh and clean you probably didn’t achieve what you originally set out to do.

Do you want to look cool and grab attention for constantly clean running shoes…or do you want to look cool and grab attention for being a runner?

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Once You Can't Touch

The pool, the lake, the ocean…once you can’t touch, it doesn’t matter how deep it is.

But it does. The story we tell ourselves about our safety and what might be swimming beneath us and our propensity of drowning is often tied to how deep we believe the water to be.

Once you can’t touch it’s all the same…if you want it to be.

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Good Enough To Try Things

Not ‘good enough to have it all figured out’.

Not ‘good enough to not make a big mistake.’

Not ‘good enough to get by’.

Are you good enough to try things?

Do you have the faith and guts and confidence to try something in the face of it maybe not working and the ‘mistake’ might make you look less-than to some people…thats a scary question. And you have to be next level good to pull it off.

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The Smallest Things

Make the biggest difference.

And…

Getting hung up on the small things is what kills the project.

So what do we do about the small things?

It starts way before. The key is having a clear, agreed upon vision and set of boundaries from the beginning. If the small thing is within the boundaries, make sure it’s right. If it’s outside the boundaries, let it be easy.

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