We have a limited amount of self-discipline each day. So how you use what you have is crucial. Robbie Swale started writing a blog post every week on the train in-between stops.
What started as 12 minutes every week ended up as an 80,000-word book. Robbie is now three books into a four book series about how to start a project, keep it going, and create the conditions for great work.
Key takeaways
- Confidence comes from the actions you take, not the other way around.
- Similarly, the mindset to take action rarely just appears. We need to take small steps to build up that mindset.
- If you want to define yourself as “the type of person who does X ”, you can’t ever be that person without taking the first step.
- Life will always get in the way. How can you leverage your practice so that it’s resilient in those times?
- Build the rep of recommitting when you lose your streak.
- Raise the activation energy for the tasks you don’t want to do, and lower the activation energy for the tasks you do.
Links
- Connect with Robbie on LinkedIn
- Check out Robbie’s books
- The 12-Minute Method Podcast
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield
- Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert
- You need 3 types of confidence – Rich Litvin
- Tim Ferris’s podcast gear
- Contours of Courageous Parenting: Tilting Towards Better Decisions, by Karena de Souza
- Lead. Learn. Change. by David Reynolds
- W Somerset Maugham
