Specific Action
And playing to win
Not all actions are equal.
A todo list is a funny thing, on it you can have a life changing action, and also the most trivial piece of mundanity, the kind of thing that wouldn’t matter if you never even though of it again. And they both take up the same amount of space.
It’s the same with the lists in our mind.
In fact so often when we think of something we really want, when we have a desire.
We think off all the things we need to do before we can go after that desire. We make a busy list, we give ourselves things to do to keep us busy and avoid the things we really want to achieve or experience.
We send ourselves in 7 different directions, just so we can more or less stay exactly where we are. We’re busy, doing the thing that gets the thing that gets the thing that finally gives us the real thing.
Sometimes we don’t even say we want the real thing, we say we want the busy.
I played an online chess tournament a few days ago, and won. It’s no big deal there’s no prize money or anything, you just play with whoever’s there for an hour and the person with the most points and wins, wins the tournament.
Now I’ve been playing and practicing chess for awhile, but it’s never felt like I was making progress, because I was always in practice mode, there to learn and try.. but when I put myself in a real live setting, where there was a chance of being last I actually developed a simple strategy, played on even when I was loosing badly and stacked enough of those wins on top of another and won the tournament... it’s still stunning to think that I won.
I think some of us are in practice mode, and we’ve never really played to win. If you played you would win, and even if you didn’t you would still play differently.
Play to win.
TEN MINUTE ARTIST PROMPT
Draw Specific Flowers
When working on Picturebooks I’m often asked to draw flowers, it helps to know how to draw some specific flowers.
Todays prompt is to draw a
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Foxgloves
Red Campion
