commit to your craft?
One of my favourite writers is a copywriter called Cole Schafer, I check out his daily pages regularly (although, I suppose a more apt name might be 'almost daily pages' if you're listening Cole). One of those posts was talking about wanting to be a writer and it was talking about how good things happen when we choose to commit to our craft.
It got me thinking about if I've ever really chosen to commit to my 'craft'. I work as a Graphic Designer and have done for a number of years, but if you told me tomorrow that I could no longer do it? I'd move on and be absolutely fine with it.
Which now that I've put it out there, is heartbreaking in a way because when I was younger, it was what I wanted to do. I guess just never to the extent that the very best commit to their crafts.
I've always admired the people that could find true passion with their craft, it must be such an incredible feeling to be completely consumed by it.
Then I thought about writing, for the last several years I've written every single day, not just for work but for enjoyment and I've never once got bored of it; frustrated, certainly but never bored.
Which makes me wonder whether I've quietly committed to honing my writing craft?
Cole ends that post by saying "Please just trust me when I say: Write every day." and I have to say that is something I can wholeheartedly commit to.
Now, where are all those good things I was promised?