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# We all need reminders. (daily video)
- URL: https://thisreidwrites.com/10-08-2026-daily-video-we-all-need-reminders/
- Published: 2026-10-08T22:11:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-17T20:46:26.000Z
- Description: Creative, this is one of the most powerful tips I can give you. Did you have a good day creatively? Put it in your calendar with a reminder to pop up yearly. I’m dead serious. This is a source of encouragement you would not believe.
- Author: Ruthanne Reid, Author
- Tags: Daily Videos, practical tips

Creative, this is one of the most powerful tips I can give you. Did you have a good day creatively? Put it in your calendar with a reminder to pop up yearly.

I’m dead serious. This is a source of encouragement you would not believe.

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## ROUGH TRANSCRIPT

Welcome back, creatives. Ruthanne Reid here, author and stroke survivor,  
to help you get out of block and into a daily habit of creation.  
Normally, I give broad tips because they are designed  
to help you as a human who is also an artist, which means they're  
not dependent on medium or anything like that.  
You can be a writer, artist, sculptor, whatever.  
These will apply to you because you are human.  
Today, I'm giving a very specific tip, which also applies to you as a human being,  
but I think you might find it helpful.  
Your creative life is going to have a lot of ups and downs.  
There are good days, there are bad days, everything in between.  
And on those bad days,  
you can't remember the good days.  
I know how it is.  
Your emotions are in a certain place, your perspective is shifted, and  
it seems like nothing you have ever done has mattered.  
Those are hard days.  
This tip will help you get through them.  
When something good happens creatively, put  
it in your calendar.  
Include the details, include the location, include anything  
relevant, because you're going to set this thing to pop up with  
a reminder once a year every year on that date.  
You will be amazed what happens when  
you are having a day, and you're thinking, I can't write,  
sing, whatever,  
oh, my gosh, I'm just, I'm fooling myself,  
it's all been a fluke... and then up comes a reminder: a  
year ago, of when something you said made a difference, or  
affected someone, or someone was moved, whatever it is.  
It's a reminder that it was not a fluke, and  
that what you're doing counts.  
I have a lot of these in my calendar, and it is one of the best  
things that I've ever done for myself.  
I really suggest that you do this.  
We need that perspective.  
And in those dark days, when you can't see or feel the truth,  
sometimes a little calendar reminder can help break you out of it.  
You count, and your art counts.  
This is not about whether you're famous or making money.  
This is about whether you made something vulnerable, human, and real.  
Sit down with me, and together, let's make something new.