A friend of mine, Dale, a successful creator himself, told me something recently that changed how I see my business:
“Treat your business like a relationship, not an identity.”
For some reason, on that particular day, that phrase just hit different.
Because if I’m honest, I would never treat a partner the way I’ve been treating this business. I’ve neglected it. Made promises I didn’t keep. Showed up inconsistently. Put everything else first.
I’ve unfortunately been in a toxic relationship before. I’ve even been the source of toxicity at times. And I can tell you from experience, I hated it. I regretted it for years.
I don’t want this business to become that for me.
I want to enjoy what I do. I want to show up with pride, with gratitude, with the belief that if I do this right, it can inspire others to take action on their dreams and the places where they’re stuck.
That’s what this series is about.
What is Create Everyday?
Starting today, I’m committing to posting on this blog every single day. And I’m inviting you to do the same.
Every day, I’ll share:
- Something I created
- A prompt for you to try
- What I’m learning and struggling with
- Tools and experiments worth trying
This isn’t about productivity hacks or growth strategies. This is about taking a stand against endless consumption. A stand against the pace of life as it is being handed to us. I see it as a chance to step away from the endless treadmill of tactics, strategies, and perfectionism and instead to embrace creativity for its own sake.
This is about creating for fulfillment, for fun, for the finite time we have.
Why Daily Writing (and Creating) Matters
Writing might be the most important creative practice you can adopt.
For me, writing has been everything. Love letters to girls in my class. Letters of friendship. Processing emotions when words felt impossible. Writing helped me find myself when I was lost, forgive myself for what felt unforgivable, and express what couldn’t be said out loud. Writing has been the core of most of my career as a knowledge worker.
In writing, I found more than words. I found myself.
Daily writing only helped me to magnify the value that writing has brought to my life.
Every book on creativity I’ve read emphasizes this: The Artist’s Way with Morning Pages, Stephen King’s On Writing. They all come back to the same truth – daily creation changes everything.
When I first began a daily writing practice privately in CreateOS as a daily ritual, I was shocked at how it affected my life. I started with morning pages, then began keeping track of the most storyworthy things that happened in my days. Soon, I started to add my ideas and curiosities, and before I knew it, I had built a museum of ideas and experiences. My own personal Wikipedia. I would eventually come to find out that this is known as a “Second Brain” and building one has completely changed my relationship to creativity and my business as a solo-creatorpreneuer.
This single practice has also spread into other areas of my life. It gave me the courage to finally record my first video on my personal channel about AI after two years of procrastination. It taught me discipline. It taught me to trust myself and helped me to see merit in my ideas and writing. It’s led me to publish some of my own private writings more publicly on my own personal blog and to even start this series. There has been no greater impact made on my life than that of writing every day, so I hope that this series may inspire someone else to try and do the same.
How to Start
Keep it stupid simple:
- Write on paper
- Doodle on a napkin
- Text yourself a poem
- Go for a walk and create a story after
If you want something digital like me, so you can create your own second brain, I suggest you use a free tool like Obsidian. (I’ll share more of my templates and my setup in future posts.)
The medium doesn’t matter. What matters is showing up and doing the writing.
The Philosophy
This series will be built on a few principles that we’ll get into more as we go along:
Wabi-sabi – the Japanese philosophy of embracing imperfection. Your creation doesn’t need to be perfect; it just needs to be yours.
Impermanence – each moment passes. Each day is a chance to create something that didn’t exist before.
Creating over consuming – the world wants you scrolling. We’re choosing something different.
Why I’m Doing This (and Why You Should Join Me)
I need this as much as you might.
I need deadlines. I need connection. I need to share the things I love but never post – the moments, the stories, the realizations that make up my life as a creator. I need to show up as myself, not as some polished version of what I think a business owner should be.
I want Create & Go to be known for one simple idea: Creating Everyday. Even if it’s just a journal entry. I want to help others to make creativity a pillar of their day.
Whatever it is you’re creating or working on, there is almost ZERO chance that creating/writing every day will do anything but improve it. I have found that this daily writing practice alone can help people to get unstuck. It can help to provide clarity on the things that matter and put you on the path to start creating the life you want to have.
Let’s Do This
So for today, all I ask is that tomorrow, you create something. Anything.
Share it if you want. Keep it private if that feels better. You’ll be able to see mine here.
Just create.
I’ll be doing the same thing.
— Noah
