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There Is No Right Way to Do This

After 100 Days…

My guest post for #The100DayProject

Herbert Lui
3 min readMay 6, 2021

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Image: Day 90: There is no right way to do this/#The100DayProject

A couple of days ago, Lindsay Jean Thomson published a guest post I wrote for #The100DayProject. Here it is in full:

Congratulations on making it to day 90! Whether you’ve missed zero days or two dozen, I hope you feel very proud of yourself for sticking with it, and for improving along the way. I’m sure if you look back at what you made on day 1, you’ll notice the difference.

For me, a little over a year ago, I started writing one note on a 4x6 index card per day. I’m now writing this over a year later, and I’ve lost track of the days — I have missed at least a dozen, I’m almost certain — but I’ve written over 800 notecards. For me, these notecards are the building blocks of my articles, books, and plans.

Like Lindsay wrote on Day 50, the journey towards perfection changes, and continues onwards. On Day 90, that’s what I want to suggest: As much reason there is to celebrate and pop champagne on day 100, there’s also a reason to continue the practice.

For example, for over 5,000 days, Beeple created a new digital painting and posted it at Instagram and Twitter. For him, it’s simply become something that happens every day — like using the bathroom, or eating. Visual artist…

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Herbert Lui
Herbert Lui

Written by Herbert Lui

Covering the psychology of creative work for content creators, professionals, hobbyists, and independents. Author of Creative Doing: https://www.holloway.com/cd

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