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"Smart small" is magic. I swear it.

Coach Matt Slaybaugh
Coach Matt Slaybaugh
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I'm tired.

I wanted to rejuvenate yesterday, but I wasn't really successful.

So I tried to get out of working on the website today. I thought about going back to bed, or just effing around with other, less important stuff.

Eventually, though, I came back to myself.

And I asked, "What do my Achievement Skills have to say about this?"

I recognized Resistance. I was giving him an easy morning. He was gonna get to go back to bed pretty quickly.

Then I got to that super basic ask, that simplest of questions – "How can you start small?"

And I did it literally. I started with tiny, thumbnail sketches in my notebook. Nothing at all fancy about it. So terribly rough.

And it worked. That got me unstuck. I went from tiny to not-as-tiny to five inches tall, to laying it out with no content in Webflow.

Still far from done, but I'm a heck of a lot further than I was an hour ago.

"Smart small" is magic. I swear it.

Coach Matt Slaybaugh

I've written one book, scripted two dozen plays (and directed dozens more,) and spent twenty nights at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I love to learn. It's what I most love about being a coach.


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