It’s going to take more than a day to create something remarkable. Whatever you can do in one day, someone else has already done in one day. No one is impressed anymore. Expectations can’t be exceeded in one day. Maybe they can in one week, but even that gap is closing.
It takes time to develop your own process, to walk a distance long enough that you’ve left the main path.
I want to create something remarkable in one day as much as you. I want a single blog post I write in the morning to go viral. I want to come up with an idea, call a friend, build it in the afternoon, push it out in the evening and find out it was a true overnight success.
Sure, there are outliers and a .0005 chance the one-day thing can happen, but are you willing to spend all of your energy and creative scope on that?
It’s likely the one-day work you’re doing now isn’t making you feel uncomfortable.
Instead of writing another blog post, start writing an article to be published on 99U or PRdaily or some other niche platform that coincides with your focus.
Instead of recording another five-minute talk about the industry you’re in, plan out a 30 minute segment that digs deep, makes you uncomfortable, and goes where few have been (or no one).
We can hate the truth that it’s unlikely we won’t create something remarkable in a short time period, but it doesn’t make it any less true.
Stay Positive & You’ve Got To Leverage The Long Haul
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