Tuesday’s tiny thing
Oh, hi friends!
Hear that? The world is shutting down. Your inbox is getting very quiet. People are hopping on trains and planes.
These uninterrupted days of workplace silence are as rare as a tasty tomato in November. I’m going to try to set some intentions for next week instead of letting the days fly past me. Friends to see! Books to read! Words to write!
But first, I want to find one more thing to do today that’ll make reentry back to Earth feel easier next week.
What’s your one tiny thing? Pick it, do it!
“Not that a film set is designed to help you, because nothing on a film set, other than the other actors, is designed to make it easy for you. There’s time in between takes, or somebody who just had lunch who’s operating a boom who’s getting sleepy, or people are burping or farting, or rain comes in, or the other actor is drunk, doesn’t know his lines, is not available. Everything is designed not to help you, so how do you pretend? How do you take it all in if it’s your ambition to make it the best you can, and to go as deep as you can? It maybe has to cost something.”
—Adam Driver, from this insightful Esquire profile
There are distractions everywhere. Ignore ‘em.
Getting People to Read Your Stuff
Eagle-eyed subscriber Scott Kirkwood managed to I.D. yesterday's quote whose origin I couldn’t remember (thanks, Scott!).
“Everything in your life, right now, is a reflection of what you believe you deserve,” is from this article by Benjamin P. Hardy, who happens to be the most successful writer on Medium with 159K followers.
Hardy seems to have written an article every three days for the past three years—and his first book will be released by Hachette in March. Hmm, I wonder if there's a connection between his consistency and results?
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara