How to get to one & done
Oh, hi friends!
I wish I had a little buzzer that went off every time I do something twice that really only needs to be done once.
When I read a long email…don’t respond immediately…then have to read it all over again when I have time to respond…
When I think about a project or something I need to do…avoid doing it…then need to think about it a second or third or fortieth time to actually change it.
How often would I hear BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ? (Or HONK HONK HONK.) How many thoughts are repeating that could (and should) be resolved quickly?
In one of those how-to-work-smarter books, someone says to “only touch everything once.” Don’t pick up that piece of paper unless you know where you’re filing it, don't schedule that meeting unless it ends in action, etc.
If we do this with our thoughts, too, I wonder how much time we’d save?
What About Luck?
Danny Strong played Doyle on Gilmore Girls before going on to write Game Change, The Butler, the Hunger Games scripts, and co-create Empire. Here's a bit from a very good interview about his process and new film Rebel in the Rye about J.D. Salinger.
Many people underestimate what it’s like to go to war and survive. A lot of people underestimate what takes to go to Hollywood and achieve success. Do you believe that luck plays a part?
For me, I feel that I’ve had some lucky moments in my career. I’ve also had lots and lots of rejection and kept moving forward. When it seemed that everything was stacked against me over and over and over again, I kept at it. So my success doesn’t feel like luck. It feels like hard work, perseverance, dealing with things that can be depressing, painful, but then pushing through it. Lucky breaks happened, too. But it wasn’t like I was hanging out at a soda shop and got discovered. I was pounding the pavement for years and years and years. I was endlessly getting rejected, both as an actor and as a writer.
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara