back to the drawing board

creating content is so fun for me, but it didn’t come naturally.

it still doesn’t.⁣

my life has been one big game of “back to the drawing board.”⁣

day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, the same question is always in the back of my mind: How can I adapt and improve on what I did yesterday?

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

— James Clear⁣

ooh shit. 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼that. that! read it as many times as you need.⁣Atomic Habits by James Clear is one of my favorite books of all time. He’s a genius, and that book deserves your time.

Here are a few other passages from Atomic Habits that really stood out to me:

• “You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”

• “When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.”

• “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”

• “All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.”

• “The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.”

it’s a big December, y’all. are you doing it with me?

What are you doing this month that you’ll be proud of in a month from now? Two months from now. six months from now. decide that today, and make them happen little by little, day by day. you’ve got this.