Just Do One Thing Today
The golden rule
It’s a well-established principle that we’re bad estimators.
General rule: people overestimate what they do in a day, underestimate what they can do in a year.
It plays into the reality that most people value speed and convenience. Why wait when you can have it now?
In the world we live in, when work, kids, family, cleaning gets in the way, and there’s an internal battle going on to create, to build, to do something outside your day job there are no hard and fast rules.
Generally, it pays to use whatever time you’ve got to do whatever you can. But there is one rule that I stick to that has seen me through 4 years of writing alongside my day job and it’s this: just do one thing today.
Productivity for productivity's sake
A sensible endeavor in the world we live in is to not demand more. More leads to burnout, exhaustion, low mood, and all kinds of bad things. An already full plate doesn’t need stacking.
But that doesn’t mean you should let go of your ambition to build outside of your day job. Instead, an element of realism is useful. You can’t do it all. It’s not weak to admit that brutal reality. You cannot. I cannot.
