A remarkable, glorious achievement is just what a long series of unremarkable, unglorious tasks looks like from far away. No one builds a house. They lay one brick again and again and again and the end result is a house. Procrastinators are great visionaries—they love to fantasize about the beautiful mansion they will one day have built—but what they need to be are gritty construction workers, who methodically lay one brick after the other, day after day, without giving up, until a house is built. Nearly every big undertaking can be boiled down to a core unit of progress—its brick. A 45-minute gym visit is the brick of getting in great shape. A 30-minute practice session is the brick of becoming a great guitarist. The average day in a wannabe authors week and a real authors week looks almost the same. The real author writes a couple pages, laying a brick, and the wannabe author writes nothing. 98% of their day is otherwise identical. But a year later, the real author has a completed first draft of a book and the wannabe author has...nothing. Its all about the bricks. And the good news is, laying one brick isnt daunting. But bricks do require scheduling. So the final step in planning is to make a Brick Timeline, which slots bricks into the calendar. The slots are non-negotiable and non-cancellable—after all, its your first priority and the thing that matters most to you, isnt it? The most important date is the first one. You cant start learning to code in November. But you can start learning to code on November 21st from 6:00 - 7:00pm.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:53:28 +0000
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