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Cultivating self-awareness and self-reflection
Prioritizing and setting boundaries for self-care
Practicing mindfulness and presence
Building a writing habit
- Read & study: Start by copying other people’s writing styles.
- Set a daily reminder to write: It's crucial to establish a daily routine.
- Set the bar low: Your goal is to write only one true sentence. Just one.
- Remove distractions: Tell the people in your life about your daily writing habit. Ask them to not disturb you when you write.
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Writing as self-discipline
The reason why we don’t do anything useful with our time is that we lack self-discipline.
But when you write every day, you strengthen your discipline. And you can transfer that better self-discipline to achieve anything in life.
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Writing cultivates self-awareness
Nothing will help you to get to know yourself more than translating your thoughts into words.
When you force yourself to write every day, you automatically become more aware of your thoughts. And self-awareness is one of the most important skills that predict career succes...
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Benefits of a daily writing habit
Writing is one of the tools top performers use to improve themselves. It has less to do with publishing and more with:
- Better self-discipline
- Improving persuasion skills
- Cultivating self-awareness
- Better
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Have a Trigger And Reminders
It’s best to set your writing time right after something else you regularly do each morning: wake up, shower, brush your teeth, etc. Try to set it before anything that might lead to further tasks or distractions, like email checking.
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