Stepping up
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I’ve just been skimming back through some of the Seth Godin books I have read in the last couple of years. I found this quote in “Poke the Box”:
“Isaac Asimov wrote and published more than 400 (!) books by typing nonstop from 6 am to noon, every day for forty years.”
And that helps me to realise the difference between the amateur hobbyist and someone who really steps up to the mark. I know places in my life where I need to just keep turning up and creating, even if in the moment the work doesn’t feel that good. But just turning up makes the difference between being a writer and talking about being a writer.
I have noticed that when I turn up, and do what I commit to do – even when the quality doesn’t feel brilliant at the time. When I look back later, often the work is far better than it seemed at the time. That inner critic is distorting my view.
Where do you need to keep turning up? Where do you need to step up to the mark and have the courage to just get on with it?