How a Daily Practice Can Change Your Life

“We have a tendency to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year but underestimate what we can do in ten.”

Have you heard that saying? I have heard and read this many, many times, but it only recently sunk in. Year after year my list of annual goals got longer and longer, and by the end of the year I’d made some progress (maybe) in a few areas (kind of) but nowhere near what I’d written down.

Don’t get me wrong, we can make a lot happen in one year. We can even change our lives completely within the course of a year. But some things take longer. They take time. They take a slow and steady build. And they are still worth putting in the effort every day because when we do accomplish them, we won’t care that it took us five years instead of one.

For example, I know that one day I want to write a book. I will write a book one day. But I also know that I’m not quite ready to write it yet. Not because I don’t think I’m ready from a skill perspective, but because I don’t think the story is quite ready to be written yet. But when I do decide to write a book, it will help if I already have a writing practice. It will help if I already have readers. It will help if I’m already known for my writing.

So although I know I won’t be writing this year, I will be this year. I will be (and have been) writing…