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You may have heard that having an accountability partner improves your odds of getting things done. Perhaps you’ve even experienced it. If not, here’s a great way to try it out today. Courtesy of friend-of-the-list Kevin Freidberg’s recent piece, Shatter Your Glass Castle. Here’s how it works (my paraphrase of Kevin’s idea): 1 - Determine the work you need to do (e.g., a webpage, an email, a blog post). 2 - Email a friend and tell them you’ll send a finished draft in 25 minutes. 3 - Do not wait for their response. 4 - Set your timer for 25 minutes. 5 - Do everything you can to write your best version of this draft. 6 - Hear the timer go off. 7 - Press send. Boom. Instant accountability partner. In Kevin we trust, P.S. I totally emailed Kevin before starting to write this. I’m happy to report I’ve got 16 minutes left until I have to email it to him. And that’s more than enough time to pop it into Hemingway for a spruce up and then set it up and send it via ConvertKit. |
One Creative Moment
by James E. Turner
One Creative Moment is a daily email for founders, owners, and creators. You'll get insights, irreverence, and inspiration to help you build a better business & live a more creative life.
Not to be that “newsletter recommending” guy, having just yesterday drawn your attention to a new one I’m enjoying. But this has to be done and has to be done now. (I had meant to do it before the start date! But, life…) So I’m sharing this in case you would also find it interesting: Craig Mod’s latest pop-up newsletter, “The Return to Pachinko Road.” It’s, as Craig puts it, “…an 18-day pop-up walk, walking 600km from Kyoto to Tokyo along the Tōkaidō (“Pachinko Road”). Starting on May 14,...
Just read the second issue of a promising new newsletter from Finn McKenty. (I know him from LinkedIn, but am most intrigued by what he has to say about making YouTube work.) It included this painfully true quote: “… opportunities usually go to the people who are the most visible, not to the people who “deserve” them.” If you needed an extra boost to help you put yourself out there (or remind yourself why you’re doing it in the first place), there you go. There I go, too! Be seen, James
Think about the way your living space is set up right now. Has it always been that way? I’m guessing not. And yet, I was reflecting today that to our children, our kitchen/dining arrangement, for example, must seem permanent. Things that to them are the only way-things-can-be are, to us (Kayte and me), more like something we’re trying out “for now.” To them, this house is the seat and centre of tradition. To us, this is our suburban bungalow period. (Note: I’m not saying they’re wrong, nor...