In his satirical book Gulliver's Travels (1726), Jonathan Swift wrote that whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow in a spot where only one grew, they would deserve better of mankind, and be more essential to their country, than all politicians put together.

In today's “Daily Drucker,” Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello also invokes this story.

I think about Swift’s “blades of grass” as “words on a page." If you are a writer, you may struggle getting words on a blank page. In a sense, making grass grow on the blank page.

I write notes constantly in my “nonprofit tech trainer" role, and manager, on the Per Scholas Remote Training Team.

You probably write a lot of Slack or email messages at work. This writing you do at work, in a sense, makes grass grow where it was not growing before.

You wrote in computer software like Final Draft, or Celtx, or Apple Pages, Google Docs, Microsoft Word.

Sure the writing is not perfect, but it does exist!

Find joy in your progress, not in achieving perfection.

Maybe you were interrupted by someone in your house while you were working, by your mother or father or sibling or roommate.

No need to practice hostility in those moments. Instead, practice patience.

I try to do this at work or life. To compare my work only to my work, not to others.

ACTION POINT: Grow two blades of grass where only one once grew.