How do you know if you’re ready to make “The Leap”?
- ESD: Beyond the Habit
- Today is a whole lot easier to see as yesterday than as tomorrow.
- Because “Every other day plus weekends is too complicated.”
- If you could practice more, would you?
- You do it even when you don’t want to do.
- You’ll never again say, “Oh well. Another day where I didn’t get it done.”
- This is how you live to be 103 years old.
- Study Every Single Day
- Every Single Day launches on October 17, 2017!
- Yes, you can force the Flow State. Here’s how.
- You know those things you never seem to get done? What if you could get them done?
- Meditation is the single thing that has helped me create Every Single Day for the past 1,698 days in a row.
- How do you know if you’re ready to make “The Leap”?
- This is what happens when you don’t take ESD.
- When you hear about how a person changed her life, it changes your life.
- When you’re a practitioner of Every Single Day, the “how” no longer matters.
- Sneak Peak: Every Single Day Table of Contents
- How has “Every Single Day” changed your life?
- The gift of the technique comes when we transcend it.
- Don’t have time? Here’s how to make time.
- The ESD Avatar — Who is the Every Single Day reader persona?
- The secret about that “big burst of creativity” you’re waiting for.
- It’s probably not a good idea to upload my book to Amazon while I’m in the train. Unless, of course …
- “Every Single Day” is available for pre-order on Amazon
- Mr. Pantser, meet Miss Plotter.
- 100 Reviews in 30 Days
- A prescription without a pill?
- From shame to lame to blame to aim to fame to game
- Can we become more creative?
- The Conundrum of Comfortable
- Every Single Day: Weight Loss
- If you think you need to do more, it might be time to do less.
- Very little stability in my life at the moment. Oh, yes, well, except for that. #creativelystable
- 2019 is going to be different. AKA: the mountain goat.
- Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
- Ghost with a Toast
I’m getting asked more and more how I’ve made such huge transformations in my life. This helps explain it.
In the past few years, I’ve closed down the design agency I ran for a decade, sold, gave away or stored everything we owned, moved to Europe carrying a suitcase, and I’m going all pistons firing into a career as a writer.
The craziest part? It doesn’t even seem like such a big deal to me. In many ways, it wasn’t me who decided all of this, I’m just following what I know needs to happen.
A friend pointed me a podcast about people who make Big Changes in their lives. Have a listen to The Leap: Episode 4: The Improbable Transformation of a Punk Pioneer. Here’s an excerpt:
“So now that I’m working on this podcast about people who make dramatic changes, I’m starting to realize something about them. Many people who leap are not agonizers. They don’t spend a lot of time considering the other hand, they’re not crippled by regrets. And I just don’t get that because I’m a regretter and for me there is always another hand to worry over, which is probably why I’ve never played guitar in a genre-breaking band or became a tech executive.
— Judy Campbell of The Leap
I think I’m safe to sum it up as a “gut feeling.” It’s much more a decision of the heart over one of the mind. It’s not necessarily rational (I could have kept my agency bouncing along) and it might seem crazy to others (“Wait, you’re moving to Europe with a suitcase?”) and downright insane to those who don’t understand (“A writer? Like, books?”).
But I smile and say, “Yes, that’s exactly it.”
I don’t regret, I don’t fret, I don’t look back. There’s now and there’s what comes next.
To me, it’s as simple and as natural as gravity or physics. Water will find (or create) a crack and seep through. It’s just a matter of persistence and patience.
Add a touch, OK, a big touch, of passion and that’s about it. When you have those three (Passion, Persistence, Passion), you don’t need rational or decision trees or much of anything else. You just know.
If you think you might not have all three, that’s OK. You can grow them. It’s a simple question you answer and then you’ll know:
Where do you naturally gravitate?
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