Welcome to strategy seven technique to strategy seven technique to states apply this same to tackling projects. And this does sound kind of corny. And it seems kind of obvious, but I think it's important to put it in here because it's one of those things that we do need to be reminded of because it's easier said than done. And it's one of those things we know we should do. But a lot of times we don't practice it in the heat of the moment when we're caught up in projects. And the same is by the yard life is hard.

By the inch, life's a cinch. By the yard life is hard by the inch, life's a cinch. And it's an old saying and I've seen it worded other similar ways, but you get the meaning of it just by what it says. It basically means to break larger tasks into smaller bite sized ones. Once again, it's easier said than done. And one example is as I've been videoing this course I have been working on doing one video per technique within each strategy At first, I thought I was going to do one long video for every overall strategy.

And I found very quickly that that was going to be intimidating. The, it would be too long, I would make more mistakes and it would bore the audience more. And so I thought we'll just break it down into more bite sized sections, and it'll be easier. It's like, you know, trying to eat an entire giant sandwich at once. And if you cut it into smaller pieces, then you can eat it more readily if it's one of those giant sandwiches you get at a restaurant. But in terms of in terms of breaking things down into smaller bite size attitudes, here's a quotation from a book called Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.

It's a classic writing manual. It's a classic piece on how to write effectively the attitude you want to take how you live the writers Life. And here's the question 30 years ago, my older brother who was 10 years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written. He'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. Doesn't sound like anybody does it. I have a lot of students that do that, unfortunately.

And I've been guilty of it myself. But she says, we were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds. immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead, we can all probably reference a memory from our childhood where we were in this situation and it does not feel good. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, Bird by Bird, buddy, just take it Bird by Bird. And that's Anne Lamott Bird by Bird, and that's where her title comes from. And I think it's pretty self explanatory.

When you get caught up in a large project, it's good. To sit down and say, Okay, I'm gonna write two pages a day, or five pages a day, or 10 pages a day. The reason a lot of people don't get a thesis or dissertation done is because they get intimidated and they never finish it. But if they just regardless of how crappy it is, or how whatever comes out comes out, it's a place to start. And if they were to say, Okay, I'm going to, in a year, get a 250 word dissertation written, I'm going to write one page a day, that could get it done in less than a year, or I'm going to write two pages a day or three, and just do it, take the half an hour, take the hour and do and just get something out. Don't worry about if it's perfect, just get it out and break it down into their steps and religiously, follow whatever you know, plan your work, and then work your plan.

And so even though it's obvious, and it's one of those things that everybody already knows, I think it's important to reiterate to break things down into bite size morsels so that they're a lot easier to digest. Just a lot easier to process and a lot easier to do and then you have to stick with what you say you're going to do that's hard, but it's that's the key to the successful finishing of a longer project. And just remember by the yard life is hard by the inch, life's a cinch as corny as it sounds. It's very true and that is technique to in strategy seven attitudes.