#MIVIAJE02 - 50 Days Journey of Writing Down All My 10 List-on Dream
One day after scrolling quora timeline and reading so many good answers from each Quorans, I got one mind-blowing answer about self-development in which a small lamp suddenly popped into my mind.
He wrote that to do a little step further to change our life for the better by doing small things like;
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2.
3.
4.
5.....
And blablabla.
And I was interested in number 7. It's written,
"Try to write down all your 10 dreams and list on for every single day."
It's simple. Wasn't it? At least that was what I thought after reading the whole answer and probably got a good one.
He had told us, the reader, how exactly to do it. Just prepared a piece of paper, even could be the smallest one which had enough space to write all those 10 dreams.
(That small book actually I've been using since the first day) |
Hey, I know it's funny enough but I had determined it as one of the most efficient ways, the simplest and the cheapest, It cost only for IDR 3.5K not even $1, right? I also had to get rid of the printed words and to focus on my handwriting.
It doesn't mean we cannot use any other books. Of course, we can. However, just put hvs or an unused old paper book and place it on top of the desk and start writing on.
You get this? Want to try before I show how's mine?
Okay, let's get your lazy ass up, buddy, and grab a piece of paper with a pen. Don't forget back to your sit.
Find your best sitting position, make sure it's comfortable cause we're going through thinking about the hard ones.
Here we go.
- First, for the number one and top priority, write your biggest desire for this right time. Remember, just one for each number. Think about it seriously. I only ask for this time, what exactly things you want most that pop out in your mind now.
- Second, write your second dream under the most top priority.
- It goes the same for the rest
- The bigger we write the number, it becomes something harder that needs more time to get the nod.
- Or just write randomly for 10 dreams, goals, or any ideas that you have
Here it's mine.
(My first pages of the journey) |
I have started it on the 2nd of July. I did wake up at 4 AM and did some morning routines before preparing this little book and sit my self down around 5.30 AM, the time set up.
We didn't need much time spending upon it, to write all the list took only 3 minutes though might be longer, depending on how much seriousness you gained with.
At first, I felt nothing. Nothing didn't change me at all, thoroughly just the passing breeze, at that time.
And then it began.
Day 2,
Day 3,
Day 10,
Day 14,
Day 25, and the changes started to be seen.
(My 31st day on 3rd August) |
My handwriting was getting worse. Even though I had blurred it out, still, I could have guessed it was bad.
Wow, it was starting easy day by day. The compulsion that usually came up when I had to write this down no longer existed. It was all gone.
And, this was the latest list of my dreams.
(I didn't blur it because it was already hurt our eyes by seeing how worst it was. haha) |
Believed it or not, but I met my final pages of this journey. Woohoo! 50 pages, you were my every single dream of, but to write all those were totally a piece of cakes. Haha.
The question is, what lesson I get from doing this?
The answer lies primarily with Consistency.
Take one of the sentences from Fumio Sasaki's book "Goodbye, Things on Minimalist living" (page 162) it maybe doesn't have any relations with his topic, but it does with consistency.
Aristotle believed (as paraphrased by philosopher Will Durant) that "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
If I could offer any aspiring creative by one piece of advice, it's this. Developing a habit of consistently doing something. It doesn't matter what it is, how small, or how big it is.
- It can be as simple as talking to a native from a language application to increase our speaking skill
- it can be as hardcore as drawing one illustration a day or doing a project
- it can be as simple as meditating for five minutes
- it can be as simple as writing a daily journal or 10 to-do list
"If you can to do something consistently, you will tap into a much greater superpower than the habit itself: The belief that you are completely capable of changing your behavior," said Srinivas Rao on Medium.
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