WEEK 10: DEVOUT TIME TO THE PROCESS OF DISCOVERING WHAT YOU LOVE

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Planning and Preparing: This week I wanted to continue by watching another series in the self publishing series. As always, I prepared in advance by uploading the page on my iPhone and laptop. In addition, I made a schedule in order to complete the tasks as it is better to stick to a schedule rather than waiting to be motivated to complete the task.

Implementation: this week I focused on the 2-minute rule, which states to focus just on the first two minutes of initiating a task rather than the whole task it self. Sometimes it can get overwhelming to think of finding time, making sure Meggo and Tae are ok, and then focusing for at least an hour on the video, but just focusing on turning on the laptop and having my notepad ready makes me start the process. 

Reflection: Some great learnings this week. First, was the lesson that you do not need huge blocks of time to create meaningful work. I felt that I would need a huge block of time to complete the tasks, but have learned in recent weeks that 10 minutes here or 16 minutes there can give you the time to create meaningful work. Although, it is great to be able to block out time to devout to the process of completing the task, you can still do a lot of things during your waiting times. This reinforces my idea to turn WAITING TIME into DEVELOPMENT TIME. For example, I was able to turn waiting for my car to be done into the process of what I would write this week and I am actually writing this post waiting to get my haircut. Even more, this connects to the idea from James Clear about he cumulative effect, which states that meaningful results are created from the collective work over a period of time. Think about that, imagine all the times you spend waiting and imagine using that time consistently to discovering and achieving some passion of yours?  

In addition this week, I had he pleasure of learning from Joanna Penn,http://www.thecreativepenn.com/. She is a NYT best selling author and voted by the guardian as one of the top 100 creative people in the UK. She worked first in the corporate world and then switched careers into her passion writing in her mid thirties. Joanna had a wealth of useful insights and I have listed them below:

• Do a lot of research and read a lot of books in the genre you want to write about.
• Devout yourself to the process of discovering what you love to do, as it will have huge dividends.
• Learn from those that have made money the way you want to make money, or learn from those that have done what you you want to do.
• The difference between Type 1 and Type 2 fun. Type 1 fun is fun strictly from the activity itself, for example, dancing to your favorite band at a live concert. Type 2 fun is something where you feel fulfillment after the achievement of the task. For example, writing a book.
• Your creative side = your inner child. Let them play to foster your creativity.
• Lastly, if you want to do something, then you will have to be the one to make it happen. No one else will do it for you. 

Learnings: Something that really resonated with me and validates what I am doing is the fact that Joanna said that we should all devout time to the PROCESS of discovering what we love. This is an example of Type 2 fun. Although it will not be fun everyday, the process and eventuality of finding what you love will be most rewarding once you have completed it. 

The other key learning was to learn from those who have accomplished what you want to do. This runs in line with what I have learned from other financial books, like the Richest Man in Babylon and Rich Dad, Poor Dad. If you want to learn how to grow your wealth, learn form those that have succeeded in growing and maintaing theirs.