By Steve Moran
This practice will make your life better.
Most of the “Do This” activities I put in front of you are things you do with your team. Get your people talking. Get your people connecting. Get your people seen.
This one’s different. This one is just for you. It’s a variation on something Julia Cameron gave the world in her book “The Artist’s Way,” a practice she calls Morning Pages. I’ve been doing my own version of it for years without ever giving it a name, and I owe her credit for the idea, even though what I do with it looks a little different from what she prescribes.
Some mornings I skip it for weeks at a time. Then I come back to it and remember, almost immediately, why I started.
Here’s what it looks like when I don’t do it. I wake up. My brain is already running. Twelve things I need to do, three things I forgot to do yesterday, a conversation I need to have with someone that I’m dreading, an idea I don’t want to lose. None of it is organized. All of it is loud. I open my laptop, and the first email I see becomes my priority, not because it’s important, but because it showed up first.
Here’s what it looks like when I do it. I sit down before any of that noise gets a vote. I write until the clutter is out of my head and onto the page. And somewhere in that mess, the two or three things that actually matter today start to become visible.
This one takes discipline. It’s not a quick hack you do once. But if you stick with it, it will change how your days feel and how your priorities get set.
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