1. Notes: 106 / 1 year ago  from doreese (originally from uncertaintimes)
   Seth Godin - The first rule of doing work that matters

   Really enjoy reading this. Good thought :)

   toynbeeconvector:

   crashinglybeautiful:

   Go to work on a regular basis.

   Art is hard. Selling is hard. Writing is hard. Making a difference is hard.

   When you’re doing hard work, getting rejected, failing, working it out—this is a dumb time to make a situational decision about whether it’s time for a nap or a day off or a coffee break.

   Zig taught me this twenty years ago. Make your schedule before you start. Don’t allow setbacks or blocks or anxiety to push you to say, “hey, maybe I should check my email for a while, or you know, I could use a nap.” If you do that, the lizard brain is quickly trained to use that escape hatch again and again.

   Isaac Asimov wrote and published 400 (!) books using this technique.

   The first five years of my solo business, when the struggle seemed neverending, I never missed a day, never took a nap. (I also committed to ending the day at a certain time and not working on the weekends. It cuts both ways.)

   In short: show up.

   Kick in the ass brought to you by uncertaintimes, who added:

   Start that business, finish those projects, write more words, make more art, read more books, do more, see more, live more life. Maybe if more of us do, Tumblr won’t be so incredibly sorry all the time.

   Happy New Year. For those of you rocking it, rock on. For those of you getting it going, get it going. 2011 is your year.

   :) This had to be posted.

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