performing daily consistent actions, sustained over a long period of time will. Staying calm and focusing on the one task in front of you every day will.

A relentless bias toward action pushes ideas forward. Most ideas come and go while the matter of follow-up is left to chance. Next steps are often lost amidst a mishmash of notes and sketches, and typical creative tools like plain blank notebooks only contribute to the problem. For each idea, you must capture and highlight your “Action Steps.”

If you simply capture and then tend to the actions required for a project, you are already way ahead of the game.