Just a quick update on Blake Jordan #9. I’ve been making great progress the last several weeks. So much so, I have to be careful with how much I say. I don’t want to jinx myself. But just know it’s coming along and I’m feeling good about the story overall.
When I look at my wall calendar, the one I mark with a big ‘X’ for every day I write a thousand words, I see a lot of blank spaces. Three whole months at the beginning of the year. Then two and a half weeks of Xs, followed by seventy-five blank squares, before I finally got in gear and started showing up every day whether I felt like it or not.
It’s easy to get discouraged when life gets busy and you have nothing to show for it aside from an empty blank square representing the day and a dream you didn’t pursue.
But we have to remember that those blank days did get filled up with something. With helping others, with spending time with our kids, with doing things that were important.
At the same time, I’ve learned that the people who are the most successful weren’t the most talented. They were the ones who kept hacking away, little by little, day by day. One of the greatest character traits is perseverance. People who don’t ever, ever quit.
We might get sidelined. We might get sidetracked. We might have to press pause for a while, but we never give up. Because those with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance understand one thing: that success is the sum of small efforts done daily.