Travis Kelce and Ten Minutes a Day

How to keep your Dream Project out of the gutter

If you're hanging on every detail of the Taylor Swift Travis Kelce romance, you probably saw the Wall Street Journal profile of Travis Kelce.

The article opens with an anecdote from Kelce's high school football days:

"I need fountains," the coach growled at Kelce. "I don't need f----ing drains. Travis, you're f----ing draaaaining me!"

The advice left a deep impression. ("Changed his life," says one of Kelce's closest friends.) Yes, Kelce thought -- you're either a giver of the basic wellsprings of life or a thirsty taker. He vowed to be the former. In a world of gutters, be a geyser.

Strongly agree.

This is relevant to us for two reasons:

1. Because it's an excuse to talk about Taylor Swift

2. Because it affirms the power of spending10 minutes a day on the project you care about

When people hear “10 minutes a day” they think it's about time management. That’s partially true. Most days we can find a few minutes to do something small to move our work forward. But ten minutes is about something much more important than time. 

Ten minutes a day is about energy management.

To finish a Dream Project, we don't need more time. We need more energy. We find more energy by learning to manage it like the precious resource that it is. 

Ten minutes a day is an energy management strategy. We think about sitting down for ten minutes of work and we think, oh I could do that. There’s ease and we don’t need a ton of activation energy to get going. This is what we’re looking for. This is what will help us come back again tomorrow and the day after that. 

We have a lot of examples of suffering artists, but we believe that there’s a different way forward. Our Dream Projects don’t have to be energy drains. Less gutters, more geysers. Ten minutes a day. Small efforts. We manage our energy and drip by drip the work flows.

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