Do Something Daily: Find Your Own Groove

Author’s note: This post begins the rough draft of the third chapter of my book in progress, Going Mild: 7 Ways to Lead a Life of Quiet Inspiration. This chapter is all about the power of doing something daily, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem. I hope you enjoy.

The universe loves speed, I heard someone say. He was a successful internet guru, so who am I to argue? And yet I wonder.

Speed is all about space and time, and I remember some guy named Einstein saying those things were relative.

Moving at Variable Speed

On one hand, you have the speed of light: 186,000 miles per second. But on the other, you have the formation of the Grand Canyon, an event that took 5-to-6 million years according to recent estimations.

And though we’re on a planet that’s 4.5 billion years old, we humans didn’t show up until about 200,000 years ago. Condense all that time into a year and we don’t arrive at the party until a few minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve.

In reality, I think it’s the internet guru who loves speed. He talks about it all the time. It works for him, and at times it works for all of us, but there are some things you just can’t rush. It’s hard to savor a fine meal in record time, and a symphony loses something when played at double speed.

Get Into the Groove

The universe loves speed? Frankly, my dear, I don’t think it gives a damn. Everything moves at its own pace. It’s our job to find our groove.

But it’s impossible to find your groove while standing still. A turtle or a cheetah, you still have to put one foot in front of the other to move forward.

Being mildly creative doesn’t require speed; just progress. To achieve that progress, the best way I’ve found is so simple it sounds ridiculous.

Do something daily.

Why Something Daily is Something Special

No matter how small or insignificant it seems, when you do something daily you build momentum, you start the ball rolling, and in time, you find your groove.

What that something will be is up to you. For me, it began as writing and posting at least one sentence a day on a blog. It eventually became and continues to be simply writing. Whether it’s in a notebook or on my computer or posted to my website, writing is the something I do daily.

Make Something Yours

Whatever yours is, it must be yours. Your something daily is the one thing you first do for you. It doesn’t have to be big; it just has to be doable. For that reason, smaller could be better.

There will be days when you find yourself doing far more than the little something you’ve committed yourself to, but there will also be days when that little something is all you have to give. Regardless, the payoff is the same: you’ll be grooving and moving forward – every, single day.

Some Things I’ll Be Doing

What I’d like to do next is explore a little further the reasons I think this is so powerful. Then, I’m going to offer some suggestions for how to select your own little something. I’ll follow those with some advice on how to determine whether and when to change things up. And last but not least, I’ll offer you a glimpse of some things to which I believe you can look forward should you choose to accept this mission.

I hope you’re ready to get your groove on.

Here’s a Way to Stay in the Groove

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