You gotta check out this new promo video for the Creative Challenge.

I’m realizing that the goals I set at the beginning of the year might not be totally relevant now.

“What characterizes binding behavior is the voluntary imposition of constraints (that are costly to overcome)”

When I really don’t want to write my daily blog (or train for this marathon, or write my book, or create content) I’ve started telling myself something…

Zach and I discuss his experience taking on the Cretaive Consistency Challenge, and some untold origins of how it came to be. 

The Creative Consistency Challenge is 85% successful at getting people to produce creative work on any given day.

You know that you’ve tried to be consistent in the past, but failed. Understanding why that happened, and what you might need to do to avoid failure in the future is what leads to success.

If you want to write…

The reason you find it so hard to stay consistent with your creativity is because, for years, your creative self was told to stay in the corner, to not take any risks; to only speak when spoken to. 

On December 31, 2021, I published my 465th blog in 465 days. I successfully wrote and published an article every single day for an entire calendar year—plus one hundred days on top of that. But it wasn’t always like this. I used to be a serial quitter.

It stands to reason that high expectations reduce the amount of satisfaction we feel in our work. 

This is what we do with the Creative Consistency Challenge. We essentially “rent” an identity for a short period of time to see how it affects our lives.

Temporal landmarks are beginnings and ends of arbitrary periods of time. A new year, the first of the month, Mondays.

We hear perfectionism described a hundred different ways. Rarely do we hear it described as dangerous.

You know that feeling, right? When you incorporate a new productivity habit, you see everything you’re accomplishing, and you feel invincible?

Recently, I’ve been having trouble generating new ideas for my daily blog. 

Every time I start cleaning, ever since I was 15 years old, I start humming a funny song called One Little Corner. It’s ostensibly a cleaning song for grown-ups. The accidental genius? It’s spot-on with habit research. 

If it seems like someone has everything figured out, go look under their bed. If it looks like someone has their life all together, look at their inbox

There’s one downside about the idea of consistency that isn’t talked about enough. 

“The people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least.”