Over the last few years, I’ve been working on a project I could only complete one week at a time. Week by week, I have been going back through the book I wrote with Charles Donoghue, Light Your Own Fire, revisiting it and rewriting it from scratch. Every section. Every idea. Every page.
It has taken a long time. Longer than I expected, to be fair. But it is finally done and I can say I completed it.
When you go back to something you wrote years ago, you should see it differently. You should see what still holds and what you have learned since. You will definitely see the gaps you did not know were there when you first wrote it.
Some of it surprised me. Ideas we wrote back then that feel more relevant now than ever. There are concepts that I have been living without even realising it.
The act of rereading your own thinking is one of the strangest and most useful things you can do.
Charles passed away before I even thought of rewriting this, but I think he would be happy with what I did. He put a lot into that book and into me. The least I can do is make sure it keeps going.
So this rewrite is partly an update, partly a tribute, and partly me finally saying what I meant to say the first time around.
I will be releasing it as a Volume 2, or possibly as an updated edition, in due course. When it is reformatted and available on Kindle, you will be the first to know.
In the meantime, you now know you are one of the first people to have read it.
Remember, big projects get done one week at a time.
That is the only way, and I am glad I kept going.
This Week's Motivator
You do not have to finish it this week. You just have to do the next piece.
What is the project you have been quietly chipping away at? Or the one you stopped and have not gone back to?
One week at a time. That is how it gets done.
Prompt for the Week
- What is one piece of work that deserves to be finished? Not started fresh. Finished.
- What is one small step you can take on it this week?
- Put it in your calendar. One hour. One section. One completed step.