Write one sentence
I don't know why this took so long to click, after hearing the same message over and over again from the different podcasts and blogs and books I consume, but here goes --
Don't worry about doing the whole big thing, just do whatever the next small action is.
Don't focus on "writing a book" or "starting a business," focus on doing whatever the next super small step is in service of that goal. Writing one sentence. Emailing one person. The smallest, tiniest action that you can take next, do that one small thing. And then whatever the next thing is. And it's all those little things that build up and create a big thing.
This thought has been incredibly helpful to me in the last 24 hours, as I've been sitting here stuck on the stress of wanting to build an author empire for myself that replaces my day job and lets me live like a queen on book sales. Guess how many words that helped me write.
But keeping my eye on the absolute closest next marker in the road -- literally writing the next sentence, and then the next, and so on -- brought me back to the present and got me moving again.
I think it's good and important to have big goals for the future, but also not to let them overwhelm us from taking any action. You don't do a big thing all at once, so don't let yourself get discouraged that it's taking time or you're not yet at the place you visualize in your dreams. You will get there, one small step at a time.
Don't worry about doing the whole big thing, just do whatever the next small action is.
Don't focus on "writing a book" or "starting a business," focus on doing whatever the next super small step is in service of that goal. Writing one sentence. Emailing one person. The smallest, tiniest action that you can take next, do that one small thing. And then whatever the next thing is. And it's all those little things that build up and create a big thing.
This thought has been incredibly helpful to me in the last 24 hours, as I've been sitting here stuck on the stress of wanting to build an author empire for myself that replaces my day job and lets me live like a queen on book sales. Guess how many words that helped me write.
But keeping my eye on the absolute closest next marker in the road -- literally writing the next sentence, and then the next, and so on -- brought me back to the present and got me moving again.
I think it's good and important to have big goals for the future, but also not to let them overwhelm us from taking any action. You don't do a big thing all at once, so don't let yourself get discouraged that it's taking time or you're not yet at the place you visualize in your dreams. You will get there, one small step at a time.
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