It’s that time again.
I’ve finished reading Lord of the Flies.
Now, I have this habit where I’m always reading multiple books at the same time. Around 8–12 books to be precise.
It helps me to stay disciplined in my reading habit.
Whenever I don’t feel like reading a certain book, no problem. I’ve got a handful of others to choose from.
No procrastination. I always get my daily reading in.
It also helps loads with being able to make better connections between different topics that I’m reading about.
And as you should know. Making those connections is where the real value comes from.
Which is funny because I used to hate reading when I was younger. But that’s a story for another time.
At any given time I would have 1 main fiction book that I’m reading. My main book for the past weeks was Lord of the Flies.
But here’s the ‘problem’ I had just today.
I only have one other fiction book left on my shelf.
And that’s The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. Which is a HEAVY piece of literature.
I ‘started’ reading it back in February but dropped it quite quickly. The book left me confused and I couldn’t understand much.
Even now when I am forced to resume where I left off. It scared me to see just how many pages I have yet to read.
But then I thought about it in a different way.
There’s actually no difference between reading a book that’s 80 pages vs one that’s 800 pages.
You just read. You read one word, one sentence, one page at a time.
Do you know who taught me that?
Rocky.
It’s what he said when training Adonis in the movie Creed.
“One step at a time, one punch at a time, one round at a time.”
It’s true for boxing. It’s true for reading. And it’s true for all of life.
Even for building your creator business. The aim isn’t to make $10K/month. The aim isn’t to get to 10K followers.
It’s to keep playing the game step by step. One idea, one tweet, one offer, and one client at a time.
We often get blinded by the grand scheme of things. Looking at the peak of the mountain instead of the trail right in front of us.
Take a step back.
Zoom out. Look at the bigger picture, yes.
But don’t stay stuck.
Figure out what you’re lever-moving tasks are. What can you do on a daily basis that’s getting you closer to your goal?
Are you closer to your goal this week than you were last week?
Great. You’re making progress. That’s what it’s all about.
Now excuse me I’ll be reading my book one page at a time.
So get out there and start putting your steps in.
PS: If you’ve got any recommendations for your favorite fiction books. Feel free to reply to this mail and let me know. I’m always open to new suggestions which I hadn’t heard of before.