Focus is Power đź’Ş
Focus is powerful. After ditching a bunch of other stuff I smashed my deadline to produce a Procreate Dreams class for Skillshare.
I signed an NDA, but I’ll tell you all about it.
At the end of last year I committed myself to 2 projects: my LIMINA collection of art; and a class all about NFTs. Both didn’t have a deadline. Yeah, grimace. And a nod of understanding.
Then Skillshare asked me to create a Procreate Dreams class, with an NDA. I agreed—I love Procreate and animation. We agreed on a deadline of 4 March 2024. Which, I thought, gave me enough time to finish my NFT class and LIMINA project.
That didn’t happen.
I snuck in little projects around them.
And then my first Procreate Dreams class milestone was due.
So I paused those 2 projects, and all my other projects, to get the Procreate Dreams class done.
This decision, to work on one thing—with a deadline—has been a mind-blowing eye-opener. I have loved every minute of it. Even every minute of the 23 takes in lesson 3 of the class.
This is how I used to work 4 years ago.
And this is how I plan on working going forward.
Working on one thing, with a deadline, has allowed me to get into a routine and rhythm. It has allowed me to get something big done in a short space of time. It’s made life simple. It’s freed my brain up to be creative and to rest.
This all occurred while I unsubscribed from crypto, web3, NFT, and AI news. I had big FOMO. But now I have big JOMO. I stopped tweeting. I stopped checking news websites. I didn’t even think of writing this newsletter. My inbox cleared up. My 173 tabs dropped down to 2 over a few weeks. And I began focusing more and more on one thing: this Procreate Dreams class.
And now it’s done! It’s almost in the wild. You can learn how to animate in Procreate Dreams by making an alien spaceship drama movie with me! Watch the intro and read more about it on my website.
I’ll send you a link to the class on Monday when it’s live on Skillshare.
❤️ Big loves
Rich from TapTapKaboom