One Apple A Day #19
I’m reading a lot lately. A few weeks ago I was talking with one of my best friend who’s also a very good writer. I asked her for some tips on how I can improve my writing skills. She told me to do two important things:
read more
write more
I was expecting for her to suggest me some manual to study, some classes to attend, some exercises to do. I was looking for some exotic and mysterious key to open the secret world of writers.It happens a lot of time. We want to change something in our life. Something we’ve been trying to change or improve for long time without success. So we read books. We attend seminars. We ask someone with more experience. We look for the secret recipe. Because, let be honest, if we haven’t succeed yet it’s only because we don’t know the secret magic formula.
Reality is that most of the time there’s no formula. Even worst. The things we have to do to change or improve are the easiest basic things. And we already know them. But we don’t do them. So we dream about a secret formula to avoid the responsibility of our failure. It’s not our fault, we don’t know the formula.
What Is Easy to Do Is Easy Not to Do — John Rohn
It’s easy to avoid the easy things. They seam so easy, how can they produce significant results? This is where the Compound effect kicks in. Small actions, executed with consistence over time will compound to great results. So I started the habit or reading half an hour every morning. And I write for 15 minutes every morning. It’s my daily apple.
In the end, an apple a day keep the doctor away.