Design Your Day Around Your Goals

Showing up for these blogs every day is a challenge. Sometimes I have a great idea for a post. Most of the time I don’t. Writing every day with no lightning in my brain is the tough part. Wondering if what I’m writing is compelling, or helpful, or encouraging in anyway for anyone? That makes me feel insecure. 

About every nine blogs I write are just alright. They’re fine. And then the tenth blog is lightning. Clarity comes to my mind as my fingers type in a fury. A meaningful concept becomes so simple and concise to me that I just get to tee it up and take a few big swings at it. I’m not even worried if I wrote about it in the best way possible because the idea is so compelling to me that simply stating it is enough. 

I’ve learned to design my days around the lightning. My entire morning is set up so I can have a hyper-productive 45-minute burst of creative writing. I wake up, take a shower, go for a walk, make coffee, drink the coffee, and read. Then, with ideas in my brain, and caffeine in my bloodstream, I write. I smack the keyboard like a snare drum, creating conceptual rhythms for others to march to. Then after the burst is over, I make breakfast, watch a few YouTube videos, and then start doing my work for the day. 

I want to publish books and courses that help people achieve their goals. I believe this daily blogging challenge is a way for me to get enough great ideas on paper to actually make that happen. Each day doesn’t seem that meaningful. But the collection of days? Monumental. 

Here’s my challenge to you: consider how you can design a portion of your day around your biggest goals. How can you design a work session in which you stack the most amount of bricks in the shortest amount of time?

Today we stack small bricks on the city of our dreams that could never be built otherwise.