40 Days to Your Masterpiece

Your time is still running out. 40 days until New Year’s. That’s 960 hours.

Around 320 you’ll sleep through. The rest decides what you actually create in these

40 days. Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the entire ballet ‘ Sleeping Beauty’ in just

about forty days, while life around him was full of noise and distraction.

Every day he came back to the score, note after note, until a three-hour

masterpiece existed where there had been nothing. Forty days. From blank paper

to a work the world still plays. You have the same

40 days. What happens if you treat them like the making-of of your own