The Magic of Small Things Over Time
Many years ago I was a new professor at Purdue. I decided that I wanted to create great notes for my students. So on Sunday I would read half the chapter and from that created 15 pages of hand written notes with examples.
On Monday I would hand out those 15 pages as slides that were 80 percent filled in and 20 percent empty for the student to add notes. This kept them engaged and not having to write 100% of the time.
Tuesday night I read the second portion of the chapter and created next 15 pages. And on Wednesday I repeated the process.
What was the end result?
After 15 weeks of lecture I had created 15*30 pages/week=450 of notes. It was equivalent of the book with many more examples.
That same process was repeated for four years when I wrote a daily blog. Every day I wrote a short article on a topic of interest to me. At the end of the year I downloaded, edited, and organized the blogs by topic. And lastly, I published a book of thoughts.
During the last 120 days of articles, I have repeated the same process. I read and listen to new sources of information and write about my thoughts in a 400–500 words articles. These articles get posted on Medium, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
What do I plan to do with these articles? Well, 120 articles at 500 words is 60000 words. Maybe after 250 articles, organize them and publish a book.
What is the point?
All these endeavors consisted of small acts over time. All of them were in a direction I wanted to go. In the end with a little bit of additional work created magic.
I encourage you to think of your little magic moments you can create daily.
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