Oh, hi friends!
You want to bake an apple pie.
So you grab your wallet and coat and put on your shoes and queue up a podcast and head to the store.
You check out the apple selection — wow, so many! — and choose one.
You put a single apple in your cart, bring it to the checkout, and pay for it.
You head home, take off your shoes and coat, and place your apple on the counter.
You have one apple.
Hmm.
One apple is better than no apples, but it’s never going to make a pie.
We do this so often with our little tasks. And big ones.
You check your inbox and choose one email, ignoring the rest until they haunt you for weeks.
You write one beautiful paragraph and then forget to open that Google Doc again.
You scribble notes and never gather their brilliance in one place.
Nothing gets made or finished or baked or eaten if you drag out the steps and have to complete them over and over again.
Getting to the store — getting to that creative and generative and getting-it-done place — takes time and energy.
When you’re at the store, remember to buy all the apples.