By Travis Terrell Co-Founder & CEO of Soundstripe
“Success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment repeated every day.” — Jim Rohn
failure. They are the fulcrum point that turns an apprentice into a master. Small things are what change whole industries. Stephen King has written nearly 60 novels that average somewhere between 350 to 700 pages. He’s been quoted to have a goal of writing 2,000 words a day. In a 45 year career, he averages just over a book per year. For comparison, it took J.R.R. Tolkien 17 years to write Lord of the Rings, which clocks in at around 1,200 pages. Whether you consider either of the authors works literary classics, in terms of sheer output Stephen King is a monster. In his infamous how-to memoir On Writing, King lays out his mental process: “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” Whichever creative endeavor you choose to pursue will initially seem like an impossible task to complete, but the key is making the task manageable. It’s ironic how difficult taking
We love to talk about work, life, and success as a single event, like how we dropped twenty pounds, built a successful business, or won the Super Bowl. The truth is, that most of the significant things in life aren’t single events, but rather the sum of all the small decisions we choose to make. Small tasks turned into tiny habits will compound over a long period of time and can bear monumental gains. I’m going to step out on a limb here and say that small things are the only things that really matter. Those small things are the make or break. They are the difference between winning and
Soundstripe Magazine
Issue 002
Travis Terrell
