showing up

Who was it that said 80 percent of success is showing up? Woody Allen, I think. Well, I showed up this morning, yesterday afternoon, and once last week. I'm on a roll! For me, showing up means opening my laptop, firing up Scrivener, and writing.

What I notice is that I have to be in it to be in it. That is, I can't just show up once a week and expect to get any kind of flow. It's like running. Here I am with the marathon comparisons again. But it's true. If I just went out once a week and ran ...