I Stopped Posting. I Didn't Stop Playing.
What I asked myself to do last year was, on reflection, slightly ridiculous.
Every single day, I chose an instrument that I could play – choosing from the following: piano, clarinet, cello, recorder (descant and treble). Found a piece of music. Checked it out. Worked out the structure – beginning, middle, end. Played it through as best I could. And then uploaded it onto Instagram.
Every. Single. Day.
Most people don't do that.
They might do ten days. Possibly thirty.
Then life intervenes.
I did it for a year. A whole year.
And what's strange is that I didn't fully understand what I was building until it stopped.
On New Year's Day, I performed my last video. I put my instrument away. And I waited to feel lost.
I didn't.
The habit had become the point – not the sharing, not the audience, not the accountability. Just the daily return to something that mattered.
That's what I want to write about this weekend. Not the challenge itself, but what it taught me about consistency – and what that has to do with how we lead, how we show up, and how we stay connected to what we actually value.
More to follow.
