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I tried to write 5 newsletters at once was going nowhere..
Could you write 5 daily newsletters on one day, I tried, and it was going nowhere.
It’s the same with having multiple things on a todo list, or trying to work in multiple styles or serve multiple niches, in the end you have to pick one. When I turned 40 I got multifocal glasses, and I can tell you it made my vision worse overall. My periphery focus was now a cloud, when looking down from a high vantage point everything became blur. And my yes had to keep shifting around to try to find a focus.
Multi focus is just shifting focus.
Multi tasking is task switching rapidly
We can only ever do one thing at a time. Time management is a scam. All we have is choice management.
Yesterday I wrote one item on my todo list, and I did it for the whole day and it got done
Are you trying to do too many things at once. If you had to pick one for now, what would you pick?
TEN MINUTE ARTIST PROMPT
PICK SOMETHING TO DRAW
My 5 year old opened a pretend store with some of her toys today.
This is my loot from her shop. The Stick and Slinky is ‘cotton candy’. I’m offering this loot to you as a drawing prompt. Pick one object and draw it.
If you need more of a challenge try imagining it from different angles.
So it looks like I won’t be able to batch write the newsletters, there is only enough juice for one in a day, which is all the more reason to do it daily.
Adam Ming is a start up co-founder turned children’s illustrator at 40, he’s illustrated nearly 20 books. He writes generously about keeping a daily drawing habit and the early years of breaking in and working as a freelance illustrator.
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