Get into daily rituals
Use them to support your body, your emotions, and your intellect.
For this to happen, make sure you:
- sleep well
- eat nutritiously and intentionally
- exercise
- read and find intellectual stimulation
- connect with others
- do things that excite you and give life meaning
- live your values.
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We sometimes have to get out of our own way.
Too much conscious thinking about anything will become a source of stress; it makes us anxious and over-cautious as the fear piles up.
It helps you in the process of developing the right mindset of a writer.
Journaling makes you reflect on your life, imagine future possibilities, and you get to play with words because this is also a writing exercise.
Creativity takes a lot of energy and requires a great deal of recuperation. Make sure you take time to:
- Be with your loved ones
- Read
- Enjoy movies and listen to music
- Move (be it dance, walk, cycling, etc.)
- Cook and eat healthily
- Daydream.
When we change how we think, the world alters with us.
Inner harmony gives us clearer thinking and intellectual rigor.
For flow to happen, we need:
- Intrinsic motivation and goals
- Feedback
- A good and balanced mix of challenge, skills and confidence.
When we are in being mode, we are more aware of senses and emotions, as well as thoughts. When we pay attention to qualities and inner states, we:
- Pay more attention to the process than product
- Feel calmer, less fearful and anxious
- Feel more sense of control in the face of obstacles
- Value fulfillment and meaningfulness over outcomes.
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Excuses are stopping you from doing more. And you are the only person who can change it.
Define what matters, use it to determine if you need to do something and do it if it’s the case. Even small steps will help you progress.
Self-destructive behaviors can become habits and can continually undermine your success and happiness.
Self-sabotage is when we want something, but somehow we never accomplish it, because somewhere deep in our subconscious we’re fighting against that goal:
- Our disorganization distracts us.
- We’re constantly overthinking all of our decisions.
Morning pages are 3 pages that record stream of consciousness thoughts, to help you untangle your mind.
The process is simple: you just have to sit down in the morning with paper and pen and write everything that crosses your mind, until you fill 3 pages.