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Ferate's 5: Is It Possible To Be 100% Committed 10% of The Time? (039)
Put your ass where your heart wants to be.
Bryant Ferate
May 10, 2024
The Muse does not count hours. She counts commitment.
I had Mike Nilson the Host of Hoop Commitment Podcast and Director of Sports Performance at Gonzaga on the podcast recently. I loved his take on the difference between goals and commitments.
Goals are what you want.
Commitments are what you are going to do.
Such an important distinction. Your Daily Deposit is a commitment to yourself, to the future version of you, and your current/future partner and children.
It is vital to get clear on what you truly want. Life comes down to what you are willing to commit to doing.
Committing and following through to become better than you have ever been. When someone asks you “What were you like in your prime?” You can reply “I’m in my prime right now.”
One of my all-time favorite short-form pieces of writing is from Steven Pressfield author of War of Art, Turning Pro, Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Needs to Be, and more…
This one is from Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be…
Can we put our ass where our heart wants to be if we’ve got a family, a job, a mortgage?
Yes.
The Muse does not count hours. She counts commitment. It is possible to be one hundred percent committed ten percent of the time. The goddess understands.
James Patterson was creative director of J. Walter Thompson the mega-ad agency of the fifties and sixties. His dream was to be a writer of fiction. He would come into the office every morning at six. He’d close his door and lock it. For two hours, he wrote fiction. When the advertising day started, he opened his door and became a regulation Mad Man.
As of 2022, James Patterson’s books have sold three hundred million copies.
One hour a day is seven hours a week, thirty hours a month, 365 hours a year, Three hundred and sixty hours is nine forty-hour weeks.
Nine forty-hour weeks is a novel. It’s two screenplays, maybe three.
In ten years, that’s ten novels or twenty movie scripts. You can be a full-time writer, one hour a day.
Your Daily Deposit gets you closer to putting your ass where your heart needs to be. BOOK LINK
James Patterson decided to write, so what are you deciding? What is your Daily Deposit?
Keep stacking those daily deposits and making every day the best day of the year until tomorrow…
Ferate
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