Lower The Difficulty Level

Adequate is fine

One of my core philosophies/disciplines is to “paint every day”.

But it’s staggeringly difficult.

It takes a lot of discipline to show up and do the thing every day.

What makes it even worse is the arms race of expectations that surrounds us all. Everyone wants more. Quality keeps rising. The goal posts are forever shifting away from us.

So if you are trying to show up every day to “do stuff” and the thing that you are expected to do keeps becoming more complex… eventually you will stop.

You can’t crank up the difficulty level forever and keep going. Life doesn’t work that way.

Lower the bar. Lower the difficultly level.

What if you show up and do “something”? Doesn’t matter what it is, you just do it.

Doing something every day, is more powerful than doing nothing every day.

Maybe we should all just lower the difficulty level, the project scope, expectations, and stress we put on other people.

Then it would be much easier to paint every day and you might even enjoy it.

:-)

-Brian