The Tiny Project
by ajetxu · 52 things on Twos
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- The Tiny Project 2023 is the antidote to big goals and overwhelm, but a way to get things done. In late December 2021, I’m creating my tiny goals. Throughout the year I’ll be writing tiny blogs and articles, making tiny videos (shorts), and recording tiny podcasts. All on my phone. If I can’t create something all the way through to publication, then it’s out of scope. I’ll be opening up the project to anyone who would like to create their own tiny project.
- You can find out more here.
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- The most valuable real estate in the world is the graveyard. There lie millions of half-written books, ideas never launched, and talents never developed. Most people die with everything still inside of them. The way to live is to create. Die empty. Get every idea out of your head and into reality. Calling yourself creative doesn’t make it true. Make finishing your top priority.”
Derek Sivers, How To Live
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- “Don’t beat yourself up. Make your goals tiny. And I really am saying, write three hundred words a day. Fill up ONE index card a day with chicken scratch. That’s all it takes. Retype the things that pile up. All of a sudden you have something. Have no hierarchy of importance when it comes to your work. Make whatever. Be at play, always. Get comfortable doing sloppy work, malformed, phoned in, wonky work—believe you can fix it later. Because you can. And then when it does pile up, actually fix it later, as if harvesting a crop you get to correct once more, twice more, impossibly, luckily, till you’re happy with the harvest. Limit distractions.”
Bud Smith, in The Creative Independent
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- More About The Tiny Project
- The Tiny Project
- The Tiny Newsletter
- The Tiny Podcast - latest episode 21/12/2023
- The Tiny Blog
- Tiny Notes
- Tiny Videos
- Tiny Tech
- Daily Lists
- Digital Garden
- The Tiny Year Book 2023/Almanac - coming soon
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- Tiny Resources
- Twos
- Montaigne
- Nicheless
- NotePD
- Bear
- Buttowndown Email
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- Tiny Podcasts
- Stopping to Notice
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- Tiny Books
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Stop Missing Your Life by Cory Muscara
- The Year I Stopped to Notice by Miranda Keeling
- The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World by Haemin Sunim
- Washing up is Good for You
- Nature Tonic: A Year in my Mindful Year by Jocelyn de Kwant
- Gmorning, Gnight! by. Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
- Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women by Kate Northrup
- Tiny Ideas
- Hygge
- Tiny Christmas
- Tiny Projects by Bill Bergeman
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- Tiny Inspiration
- How to kick off a creative new year https://thehyphen.substack.com/p/how-to-kick-off-a-creative-new-year
- We can be gentle with ourselves and be ambitious too. Showing up in small ways daily, rather than trying to smash various targets overnight. A big check-list of big intense ‘goals’ makes my stomach queasy these days. Too much to chew. I plan to move slowly this year, following last year’s burnout. And this is the funny irony: by moving more slowly, you can often accomplish things much more easily. Martha Beck calls the art of small baby steps towards your goals ‘turtle steps’. To remind myself of this, I have a ceramic turtle ornament on my desk. I stroke its shiny little head as though it’s a good luck charm. Emma Gannon
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