This is the last page
but it’s not the end.
The other pages, the ones I left behind,
are filled with empty spaces,
long, white stretches of them.
Some I envision as squares,
while others I deem to be circles,
and someday when I find the courage
and the imagination,
I intend to return to them
and fill them,
but I can’t think to tell you with what.
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To get this book written, I had to lay a foundation, a simple, daily practice I could build on.
Before I did, it was just a vague notion, a wish in my head.
I would write in my mind, but the pages would fade and the words would grow unreadable and I’d forget what I’d strived to create the day before.
I was trying to make it perfect before I ever wrote it down. I was trying to make it brilliant before I put it in black and white. I was trying to figure out everything I wanted to say before I ever attempted to say it.
It was like trying to paint walls that couldn’t stand up. Instead, they’d tumble to the ground and shatter. This book I was trying to write, this thing I was trying to build, had no foundation.
It’s hard to raise the roof when you haven’t poured the basement.
You’d think I know this. Here I am, a guy wanting to write a book about the value of doing something daily, and I wasn’t.
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This is a book about doing something, something simple, something small, something personal and meaningful and creative, and then doing it every day.
It’s about making a promise and keeping that promise, a promise that you make to yourself.
It’s about getting things started and keeping things going, even if you don’t know where they’re taking you.
It’s about showing up.
It’s about staying put.
It’s about giving your dreams a chance.
It’s about a daily practice, a thing I call Something Daily. I believe it can change your life. And the best part? It won’t turn your life upside down.
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“When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, The Thomas Berryman Number, and it was turned down by, I don’t know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.” James Patterson
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1999411,00.html#ixzz0s7x0dDxH
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This begins my new approach to Something Daily. I love working with pen and paper, so I’ve taken to creating a page in my sketchbook and uploading the results.
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