Building new habits can be tough. Especially if they do not align with your past habits. Building the habit of writing – when you’re not naturally inclined to write – is hard.
But it’s not impossible.
As I’ve mentioned in my last post, I commit myself to write daily.
It doesn’t have to be a perfect post every time. And, with the spirit of this blog, it can be about anything under the sun.
It doesn’t have to be a long-form content every day. And neither does it have to be search engine optimized. But if I can do that, then why not?
The goal is: to build a habit of writing.
Compounding Effects
As I’ve learned in Atomic Habits by James Clear, to successfully build a habit takes a long time of repeating the desired behavior again and again.
We need to focus on 1% incremental activities daily, instead of doing overnight transformations.
This means that even if I don’t write perfectly today, as long as I keep doing this, I will eventually get better.
It will come to a point when writing will become very natural to me.
And as a writer, that’s what I aspire to be.
Power of Journaling
You could say that this blog will start sounding like a journal.
A journal is a space where you can put your thoughts – however randome they may be – into written words. It’s where you attempt to dissect the thoughts running in your mind.
The thoughts may all be jumbled. They may be all over the place. But that’s the point of journaling.
You write them down so they start forming a coherent piece.
Mind you, journaling is not optimized writing.
It doesn’t follow an outline. It doesn’t go through rigors of editing.
It just flows – like water in a river. You let your thoughts dictate how you write.
And that’s how this blog is forming itself. It will be a journal of my thoughts. Perhaps filtered but mostly unedited.
Again, the goal is to get back to the habit of writing.
