Do you remember Aesop’s famous fable about the tortoise and the hare?  How they were both running a race and everyone thought for sure that the hare would easily be the winner?  Why wouldn’t he be?  He had a spring in his step.  He was faster.  He knew for sure he would win…he had the confidence for it.

But if you remember, it was actually the tortoise that won the race!  How could he?  He only walked.  And he walked slowly, at that.  I’m not sure that the tortoise even had any thought that he would win.  We know the results, though!  The tortoise wins!  The hare was a distant second.  And why?

Because, according to the fable, slow and steady wins the race.

Years ago when our kids were younger, we would say this quote:  “Slow and steady wins the race, fast and shaky falls on its face.”  What I hoped our kids would understand was that faster was not always better and that sometimes moving slowly and steadily actually can accomplish more.

Recently, Suzanne told me about a project called the 100 Day Creative Project.  This Creative Project encourages people to pick out some form of creativity and do it for 100 days straight.  Well, I was intrigued by the idea and decided I would like to try the project.  I finally hit on the idea of taking 10 minutes a day to work at organizing in my home office/studio.  It didn’t sound super creative, but it was certainly something that needed to get done.

My studio is a room that I love, but it wasn’t working very well.   You know how it goes.  Office/studio had become office/studio/I have no clue where to put this room.  And instead of having a workable creative space, I basically had a messy storage room.  So, here comes the 10 minute creative project.  I have worked on it now for a little over 30 days.  And the results are definitely going in the right direction.  Some areas of the studio are now remarkably usable.  I know where folders are and paperclips.  I can easily find the dictionary and my journals.  Folders for community work are easy to put my hands on.  Progress!

Don’t get me wrong, it is good thing that this is a 100 day project because there is still much to sort through and organize, but I am finding a quiet joy in seeing this room come closer to being the creative space that I long for it to be.

Slow and steady, in this case, is winning the race!

Hope it makes a difference for you, as well!