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Slow and steady really can win the race.

We are so enamored with the big and spectacular that we overlook how the big and spectacular usually happen.

You guessed it. In slow, steady, and unspectacular ways.

Consistent and persistent pay off. Survivor got it right when they included outlast in their slogan.

A simple commitment to daily writing without concern for how much (or how little) I write has resulted in writing more in 7 weeks than I did in 2018 and 2019 combined. I’ll probably exceed my 2020 writing by the end of this month.

Do you have a big goal? Stop taking big bites and big swings at it. Start doing less at a time but do less more times, and you’ll see big dividends.

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Need an example? I could write one 1,000-word blog post every week and end up with 52,000 words in a year.

I could write a third less than that (300 words) more often than that (7 days a week vs. 1 day a week) and I’d end up with twice the number of words (300 × 365 = 109,500).

Get less dramatic and you’ll probably be more productive.

Do less more.

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February 20, 2021by Paul Jenkins
Written by Paul Jenkins
Paul Jenkins is lead pastor of The Gathering, a community church located in beautiful downtown Albemarle, North Carolina. He's the author of God is My Air Traffic Controller and My Name's Not Lou. Paul is passionate about his wife, his 3 children, running, reading, coaching, leading people who are following Jesus, Swedish Fish and the Carolina Panthers.