They say that Seinfeld was a “show about nothing” but I have to thank Jerry for his help with my upcoming book.
For the last year or two, I’ve wanted to write a book. But it’s was relegated to the back burner as more and more things were thrown on my plate.
I’d start for writing some, but then be knocked off of it for those other things.
So the book languished in purgatory, collecting virtual dust.
About a month ago, I got really serious about getting the book done, and I remembered hearing about something called “The Seinfeld Strategy”:
The story goes that a young comic, Brad Isaac, asked Seinfeld if he had any helpful advice for him backstage one night. The veteran comic told Isaac that he would become a better comic if he could create better jokes, and the way to do that was to write jokes every day.
He recommended that he get a big wall calendar, and put a red “X” over every day that he achieved his goal of writing one joke. After a few days, a chain is formed and you won’t want to break that chain.
I set a goal to write a minimum 500 words per day for my book – an achievable number, especially since I wrote for the first hour of every morning (before my day got out of control.)
The cool thing is I usually blew past 500 words, and often finished with 1000, 1500 or even more words for the day, making the task of finishing a 35,000ish word book much easier.
Worst-case scenario I was at least 500 words closer to my goal, but most days I did much better.
The result is I just finished the first draft of the book in a month, and we’re onto the next phase to get it out into the world in late 2016.
What’s that one thing that you know you have to get done? Could this strategy help you too?
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